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YOUNG AURORA<br />
Some good <strong>and</strong> bad at once. Good aims do not always make good books.<br />
AURORA<br />
From error to error, every turn still brought me nearer to the central truth, I thought.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
There is anguish in the thick of our opinions.<br />
Press <strong>and</strong> counterpress.<br />
AURORA<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Now up, now down. This throws us back upon a noble trust to use our own instincts.<br />
AURORA<br />
Try it. Fix against heaven's wall the ladder of school logic.<br />
You won't get far.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
AURORA<br />
Now look up with that still ray which strikes from your heart to God <strong>and</strong> you will see<br />
Heaven.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
Books. Books. Books. My books.<br />
AURORA<br />
At last because the time was right I came across the poets.<br />
<strong>Aurora</strong> helps herself to a glass of something lovely. There<br />
is no pause in the dialogue.<br />
YOUNG AURORA<br />
As the earth plunges when her internal fires have reached <strong>and</strong> pricked her heart <strong>and</strong><br />
throwing flat the markets <strong>and</strong> temples, the triumphal gates <strong>and</strong> towers of observation,<br />
clears herself, returns to elemental freedom. Thus my soul at poetry's divine first finger<br />
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