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Yet, love, mere love, is beautiful indeed + 

And worthy of acceptation. Fire is bright, + 

Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light + 

Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed: + 

And love is fire. And when I say at need + 

I love thee⁠—mark!⁠—I love thee⁠—in thy sight + 

I stand transfigured, glorified aright, + 

With conscience of the new rays that proceed + 

Out of my face toward thine. There’s nothing low + 

In love, when love the lowest: meanest creatures + 

Who love God, God accepts while loving so. + 

And what I feel, across the inferior features + 

Of what I am, doth flash itself, and show + 

How that great work of Love enhances Nature’s. + 