Then [to his neighbour one]1 may call out, "Come!
Brother, come hither -- I would show you a thing;"
And lo, a vision of his imagining,
[Informed of thought which else had rested dumb,
Before the neighbour's truth-delighted eyes,
In the great æther of existence rise,]2
And [two hearts each]3 to each the closer cling!

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¹ Taylor: "one to his neighbor"
² omitted by Taylor.
³ Taylor: "each soul"

Text Authorship:

• by George MacDonald (1824 - 1905), no title, appears in A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul, Entry for March 4, first published 1880 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

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• by M. Ryan Taylor (b. 1972), "Gloriously wasteful", 2003 [ voice and piano ], from Leafs from the Diary of an Old Soul, no. 3
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