[…] there is no love, That merits such high christening, bu… - Alfred Austin

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[…] there is no love,
That merits such high christening, but is built
Firm upon some foundation out of sight;
God, country, virtue, something not ourself,
To which ourself is nothing, save the proof
Of its invisible sureness.

Alfred Austin

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Alfred Austin DL (30 May 1835 – 2 June 1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896.

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Alexander Pope John Dryden Lord Byron James Russell Lowell William Cowper

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In vain would science scan and trace
Firmly her aspect. All the while,
There gleams upon her far-off face
A vague unfathomable smile.

'Tis a world
Where all is bought, and nothing's worth the price.

Imagination in Poetry, as distinguished from mere Fancy, is the transfiguring of the Real, or actual, into the Ideal.

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