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Read & copy
“Above the highest sphere we meet Unseen, unknown; and greet as Angels greet.”
Meaning & context
The speaker imagines mutual fidelity as capable of overcoming physical distance, placing emotional constancy beyond ordinary measures of space and absence.
Source details
“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.