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The Most Beautiful Thing

Louisa Sarah Bevington 1845 (St John's Hill, Battersea, Surrey) – 1895 ( Willesden Green, Middlesex)

The most beautiful thing around or above
Is Love, true Love:
The beautiful thing can more beautiful be
If its life be free.

Bind the most beautiful thing there is,
And the serpents hiss;
Free from its fetters the beautiful thing,
And the angels sing.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AABB XXCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 258
Words 47
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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Louisa Sarah Bevington

Louisa Sarah Bevington (born St John's Hill, Battersea, Surrey, now London Borough of Wandsworth, 14 May 1845; died Lechmere Road, Willesden Green, Middlesex, now London Borough of Brent, 28 November 1895) was an English anarchist, essayist and poet. Among those who attended her funeral was Peter Kropotkin. more…

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