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“Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown; and greet as Angels greet.”
- Date
- 1649
Meaning of “Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown;…”
The speaker imagines mutual fidelity as capable of overcoming physical distance, placing emotional constancy beyond ordinary measures of space and absence.
Where does it come from?
“To Lucasta, Going Beyond the Seas,” published in Lucasta (1649) and represented by Project Gutenberg #703. The poem uses seventeenth-century spiritual and cosmological imagery to describe separation and fidelity; the claim is lyric metaphor.