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Lowell, James Russell - I have drunk of the wine of immortals
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The Poems of James Russell Lowell
I have drunk of the wine of immortals
I have drunk of the life giving wine
And now I may pass the bright portals
That open into a realm divine!
I have drunk it through mine ears
In the ecstasy of song
When mine eyes would fill with tears
That its life were not more long;
I have drunk it through mine eyes
In beauty’s every shape
And now round my soul it lies
No juice of earthly grape
Wings! Wings are given to me
I can flutter I can rise,
Like a new life gushing through me
Sweep the heavenly harmonies