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Distinct in individualities,But like each other ev'n as those who love.Then comes the statelier Eden back to men:Then reign the world's great bridals, chaste and calm:Then springs the crowning race of humankind.May these things be!'Sighing she spoke 'I fearThey will not.''Dear, but let us type them nowIn our own lives, and this proud watchword restOf equal; seeing either sex aloneIs half itself, and in true marriage liesNor equal, nor unequal: each fulfilsDefect in each, and always thought in thought,Purpose in purpose, will in will, they grow,The single pure and perfect animal,The two-cell'd heart beating with one full strokeLife,'And again sighing she spoke: 'A dreamThat once was mine! what woman taught you this?'
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