Poem by Thomas MacDonagh

Ideal

Fragment of a perfect plan
Is the mortal life of man:
Beauty alone can make it whole,
Beauty alone can help the soul
To labour over the island span
Lying between seas that roll
Darkly, forward and behind:
Beauty beatific will bind
The mortal and the immortal mind.

1. The Song of Joy
2. In Dread
3. The Poet Saint
4. The Seasons and the Leaves
5. A Dream of Being

James Flecker Ideal ("When all my gentle friends had gone")

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