XLVIII. Desire.


WHO never wanted, -- maddest joy
        Remains to him unknown:
The banquet of abstemiousness
        Surpasses that of wine.

Within its hope, though yet ungrasped
        Desire's perfect goal,
No nearer, lest reality
        Should disenthrall thy soul.



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