Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. - Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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Oh, moment of sweet peril, perilous sweet!
When woman joins herself to man.

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And the jasmin-flower in her fair young breast:
(O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmin-flower!)
And the one bird singing alone in his nest:
And the one star over the tower.

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Far up the wave
The clouds that lay piled in the golden heat
Were turn'd into types of the ancient mountains
In an ancient land.

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