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Some syllables are swords.


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There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!

There is in God - some say - A deep, but dazzling darkness; as men here Say it is late and dusky, because they See not all clear. O for that Night! where I in Him Might live invisible and dim!



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I saw Eternity the other night Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm as it was bright.



Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.



And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep. So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams, And into glory peep.



Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended.



The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.



They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.



The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.



Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.

Affliction is a mother, Whose painful throes yield many sons, Each fairer than the other.



Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.





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