all several souls contain

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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

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