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  • Days, when the ball of our vision
    Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun;
    When the graps on the bow was decision,
    And arrow and hand and eye were one;
    When the Pleasures, like waves to a swimmer,
    Came heaving for rapture ahead! -
    Invoke them, they dwindle, they glimmer
    As lights over mounds of the dead.

    George Meredith (1910). “The Works of George Meredith”