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Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light.
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