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Symonds, John Addington - The Fancy
Identifier
024311
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Painting by Alexander Mann
A description of the experience
from New and Old: A Volume of Verse
A Fancy
A captive leaning from his tower
Looked forth and doted on a flower
The flower beneath his prison bar
Bloomed like a bright unconscious star.
Unknown, unseen, a lover stood
In ecstasy of solitude;
Before his eyes the loved one there
Unthinking flourished free and fair
The captive and the lover grew
Day after day more faint of hue;
Day after day the girl and flower
Put forth fresh beauties hour by hour.