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Conger Reynolds correspondence, March 16-31, 1918

1918-03-29 Conger Reynolds to Daphne Reynolds Page 5

that my love appeals to it like the infinite that is in the woods and brooks and your beloved music. God has been good enough to give me of the imagination of the poet that one must have to comprehend and respond adequately to a love like that. Every day, it seems, I learn how far more wonderful you are than the dream girl my heart sought. Was I a cynic that I never hoped to find a mate at once so human and so divine? Divine is what you are, beloved; I do not say it to flatter you -- it is the only way to characterize that beauty in your nature that understands the spirit in Nature and music and love as you do.
It is in my habit to try to analyze these things, to try to express them in words. Your means of expression is music; you put your feeling into it. Yet in the very saying that

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that my love appeals to it like the infinite that is in the woods and brooks and your beloved music. God has been good enough to give me of the imagination of the poet that one must have to comprehend and respond adequately to a love like that. Every day, it seems, I learn how far more wonderful you are than the dream girl my heart sought. Was I a cynic that I never hoped to find a mate at once so human and so divine? Divine is what you are, beloved; I do not say it to flatter you -- it is the only way to characterize that beauty in your nature that understands the spirit in Nature and music and love as you do. It is in my habit to try to analyze these things, to try to express them in words. Your means of expression is music; you put your feeling into it. Yet in the very saying that