THE WHOLE AND THE PART

Beware! do not keep, in a circle of reprobates,

Thine eye shut like a bud, thy mouth open like the rose.

The world resembles a mirror: thy Love is the perfect image:

O people, who has ever seen a part greater than the whole?

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