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He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.


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This page presents the quote "He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.". Author of this quote is Scott Cairns, Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected. This quote is about love, christ, affection,.