Matthew Arnold - Only--but this is rare--When a beloved hand is laid in...

Only--but this is rare--When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glareOf the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd earIs by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he seesThe meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

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Only--but this is rare--When a beloved hand is laid in ours, When, jaded with the rush and glareOf the interminable hours, Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear, When our world-deafen'd earIs by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast, And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again. The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain, And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.A man becomes aware of his life's flow, And hears its winding murmur; and he seesThe meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze. Matthew Arnold

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