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First Line: Flower of the world, bright angel, single friend!
Last Line: Before thine image, saying: god is good.
Subject(s): Love


Flower of the world, bright angel, single friend!
I never asked of Heaven thou shouldst love me;
As well ask Heaven's self that spreads above me
With all his stars about my head to bend.
It is enough my spirit may ascend
And clasp the good whence nothing can remove me;
Enough, if faith and hope and love approve me,
And make me worthy of the blessed end.
And as a pilgrim from the path withdraws,
Seeing Christ carven on the holy rood,
And breathes an AVE in the solitude,
So will I stop and pray -- for I have cause --
And in all crossways of my thinking pause
Before thine image, saying: God is good.





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