SD 4175
There was seen presented to my sight,
but in a very small degree, and veiled from full view,
as it were, by a kind of cloud, an exquisite beauty,
accompanied with a perception
that it was the beauty of conjugial love.
It was perceived to be such
by virtue of a certain affection imparted,
and scarcely anything else can be said of it
than that it was beauty itself;
for conjugial love,
that is to say, the very essential principle of this love,
gives itself the form of this superlative beauty
affecting the mind to its deepest recesses;
indeed all beauty is from this source.
I beheld also the quality of its representations,
which were various cerulean rainbows and golden showers.
(March 19, 1749)
cerulean - various blues
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