Hermitage in the Mirror



And thus invoke us, "You, whom reverend love
    Made one another's hermitage;
    You, to whom love was peace, that now is rage;
Who did the whole world's soul contract, and drove
        Into the glasses of your eyes
        (So made such mirrors, and such spies,
That they did all to you epitomize);
    Countries, towns, courts beg from above
    A pattern of your love."

-John Donne (1572-1631),
The Canonization







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