On Conversation (1782) [ Concepts ]
… days of heaven, and nights of equal praise, Serene and peaceful as those heavenly days, When souls drawn upwards in communion sweet Enjoy the stillness of some close retreat, Discourse, as if released and safe at home, Of dangers past, and … usher'd into day, The stench remains, the lustre dies away. True bliss, if man may reach it, is composed Of hearts in union mutually disclosed; And, farewell else all hope of pure delight, Those hearts should be reclaim'd, renew'd, … confidence make known The sorrows sympathy esteems its own, Daily derive increasing light and force From such communion in their pleasant course, Feel less the journey's roughness and its length, Meet their opposers with united …
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