XII.

It is no flaming lustre, made of light;

No sweet consent, or well-timed harmony;

Ambrosia, for to feast the appetite:

Or flowery odour, mixed with spicery;

No soft embrace, or pleasure bodily:

And yet it is a kind of inward feast;

A harmony that sounds within the breast;

An odour, light, embrace, in which the soul doth rest.

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