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If any, so by love refined,
That he soul's language understood,
And by good love were grown all mind,
Within convenient distance stood,
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He—though he knew not which soul spake,
Because both meant, both spake the same—
Might thence a new concoction take,
And part far purer than he came.
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This ecstasy doth unperplex
(We said) and tell us what we love ;
We see by this, it was not sex ;
We see, we saw not, what did move :
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But as all several souls contain
Mixture of things they know not what,
Love these mix'd souls doth mix again,
And makes both one, each this, and that.
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~ John Donne (1572-1631)
from The Ecstasy
art by Georgia O'Keefe
art by Georgia O'Keefe
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