Emblems

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A STREAMLET is a bright and beauteous creature
  In some wide desert, where it keeps apart
  Of each wayfarer’s heart:
The Star of Evening is a gracious feature,
  Instinct as ’twere with all the love that eyes
  Have looked through at the skies.

And hence one emblems in its beauteous being
  The memory of a Joy that in my heart
  Flowed gratefully apart;
The other, to my spiritual seeing,
  The perpetuity of Love’s white grace
  Yet in some heavenly place.

© Charles Harpur