Passage of Light



And from her arch'd brows such a grace
            Sheds itself through the face,
As alone there triumphs to the life
All the gain, all the good, of the elements' strife.

-Ben Johnson (1572-1637),
The Triumph of Charis,
from A Celebration of Charis
in Ten Lyric Pieces







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