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By scale and method works the Will Supreme, Nor clouds, nor waves, without a limit stream; And all the floods that daylight never saw, The rayless tide of ruin, owns a law. O’er all confusions marring earth and air, O’er all the shuddering hours of man’s despair, Still reigns one fixed decree of peace and love, And still, though dim below, ’tis bright above.
By scale and method works the Will Supreme, Nor clouds, nor waves, without a limit stream; And all the floods that daylight never saw, The rayless tide of ruin, owns a law. O’er all confusions marring earth and air, O’er all the shuddering hours of man’s despair, Still reigns one fixed decree of peace and love, And still, though dim below, ’tis bright above.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- John Sterling (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 669 · printed citation: John Sterling · subject: WILL—WILLING
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