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Mystic Miracle, daughter of Delight,

          Life, thou ecstasy,
Let the radius of thy flight

          Be eternity.

On thy wings thou bearest high

          Glory and disdain,
Godhead and mortality,

          Ecstasy and pain.

Take me in thy wild embrace

          Without weak reserve

Body dire and unveiled face;

           Faint not, Life, nor swerve.

All thy bliss I would explore,

          All thy tyranny.

Cruel like the lion’s roar,

          Sweet like springtide be.

Like a Titan I would take,

          Like a God enjoy,

Like a man contend and make,

          Revel like a boy.

More I will not ask of thee,

          Nor my fate would choose;

King or conquered let me be,

          Live or lose.

Even in rags I am a god;

          Fallen, I am divine;

High I triumph when down-trod,

          Long I live when slain.  

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