Into the song and music there it entered; And fixed on them my Lady kept her look, Even as a bride silent and motionless. “This is the one who lay upon the breast Of him our Pelican; and this is he 1895 To the great office from the cross elected.” 1896 My Lady thus; but therefore none the more Did move her sight from its attentive gaze Before or afterward these words of hers. Even as a man who gazes, and endeavors To see the eclipsing of the sun a little, And who, by seeing, sightless doth become, So I became before that latest fire, 1897 While it was said, “Why dost thou daze thyself To see a thing which here hath no existence? Earth in the earth my body is, and shall be With all the others there, until our number With the eternal proposition tallies. 1898 With the two garments in the blessed cloister 1899

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