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Earth hath of thee had glimpses, shaped to suit The contemplative Spirit, suffering From occultation of the absolute, The shadow of the spiritual thing That passing, veils the Truth. Let it pass on! Shine forth, O Sun! the universal King, Intelligible God. Thy steadfast Throne For ever is immovable, and Earth Light from thine aspect borrows, and, anon, In constant revolution, giveth birth To darkness, not forsaken: for the Moon And Stars reflect thy glory faintly forth, In night, most holy night, in whose high noon Majestic Heaven itself alone reveals To faith,—a starry spell,—a visible tune,— Until thy reappearing opes the seals Of the mysterious Tome, and supersedes Their borrowed lights—their spirit-motioned wheels. Yet are they God’s! how happy he who reads Their office rightly;—oracles Earth hears In visionary slumber, hears and heeds; The Deities of darkness, on the spheres Enthroned, Angels of Night, whose choral gleams Echo the word unto the worlds He cheers.
Earth hath of thee had glimpses, shaped to suit The contemplative Spirit, suffering From occultation of the absolute, The shadow of the spiritual thing That passing, veils the Truth. Let it pass on! Shine forth, O Sun! the universal King, Intelligible God. Thy steadfast Throne For ever is immovable, and Earth Light from thine aspect borrows, and, anon, In constant revolution, giveth birth To darkness, not forsaken: for the Moon And Stars reflect thy glory faintly forth, In night, most holy night, in whose high noon Majestic Heaven itself alone reveals To faith,—a starry spell,—a visible tune,— Until thy reappearing opes the seals Of the mysterious Tome, and supersedes Their borrowed lights—their spirit-motioned wheels. Yet are they God’s! how happy he who reads Their office rightly;—oracles Earth hears In visionary slumber, hears and heeds; The Deities of darkness, on the spheres Enthroned, Angels of Night, whose choral gleams Echo the word unto the worlds He cheers.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. A. Heraud (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 196 · printed citation: J. A. Heraud · subject: EARTH
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