"Love is that orbit of the restless soul Whose circle grazes the confines of space, Bounding within the limits of its race Utmost extremes."
— George Henry Boker

January 1, 1970

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Sonnet: "Love is that orbit", line 1, in Plays and Poems (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856), Vol. II, p. 400.