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before been so fully himself. The closeness and 

 intimacy of the union, and all that he has received, 

 has enabled him to bring forth and give utterance 

 to what had lain deep and dormant within him — 

 all his fondest hopes, his dearest dreams, his highest 

 aspirations. Each is more himself in the other. 

 He is, indeed, not himself without the other. Each 

 has won possession of the other. Each has with joy 

 and gladness given himself to the other. Each be- 

 longs to the other. Each is all the world to the 

 other — a treasure without price. He is ever after 

 in her as her own being. And she is in him as 

 his own being. Apart from each other, they are 

 never again themselves. They are absorbed in 

 mutual joy in one another. 



The intensity of delight is more than they can 

 bear. It brims up and overflows and goes bursting 

 out to all the world. By being able to be their whole 

 selves they have become more closely in touch with 

 the deepest Heart of Nature and nearest the Divine. 

 In that hushed and sacred moment when the ecstasy 

 of life and love is at its highest they have never felt 

 stronger, purer, lighter, nearer the Divine. They 

 have reached deep down to the most elemental part 

 of their nature. And they have soared up highest 

 to the most Divine. But Divine and elemental, 

 spiritual and bodily, seem one. There seems to be 

 nothing bodily which is not spiritual. And nothing 

 elemental which is not Divine. 



It is not often that they will attain these 

 culminating heights of spiritual exaltation. Nor 

 will they be able long to remain there. The lark, 

 the eagle, the airman, have all to come to earth 



