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Prometheus and Asia.
Heav’n-soaring birds a wider vision own.And though our eyes can boast no eagle sweep, To us is given the larger range of thought,Wherewith we pierce the starry depths, o’erleap The bounds of sense, and see in all things wroughtSigns of deep mysteries, which angel eyesMay see, or ours, perchance, in paradise.

Henry Allison.

CXXX.

Prometheus and Asia.

When a rose in beauty blows, When a bud from earth outpeeps,When a soul another knows In love’s glassy, dreamy deeps,Is not then Prometheus wed?Is not then sweet Asia led To the spotless bowers of love? And love is Lord all things above.
When a toiler finds some law, Thro’ all change unchangeable,And in joy and loving awe Sees less dim the Eternal Will,Is not then Prometheus ledJoyous to the nuptial bed? Is not then his Asia’s rule Gracious, loving, beautiful?
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