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<h2> THE MEETING </h2>
<p>O marvel of our nature, that one life<br/>
Strikes through the thousand lives that fold it round,<br/>
To find another, even as a sound<br/>
Sweeps to a song through elemental strife!<br/>
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Through cycles infinite the forces wait,<br/>
Which destiny has set for union here;<br/>
No circumstance can warp them from their sphere;<br/>
They meet sometime; and this is God and Fate.<br/>
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And God is Law, and Fate is Law in use,<br/>
And we are acted on by some deep cause,<br/>
Which sanctifies “I will” and “I refuse,”<br/>
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When Love speaks—Love, the peaceful end of Laws.<br/>
And I, from many conflicts over-past,<br/>
Find here Love, Law, and God, at last.<br/></p>
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