“Order the beauty even of beauty is,
It is the rule of bliss,
The very life and form and cause of pleasure.”

—  Thomas Traherne

"The Vision", stanza 2; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 20.

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