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Searching the skiey depths all night in vain, The starry seer hath known this mystery— That the sky orb, which over half the sky Hath baulked his chase, and mocked his utmost pain If (haply while the daylight poured amain Into the empty concave of the night) Hath stepped into his glass, as clear to sight As the one tree that stars a glassy plain, So is it known that some secretive Truth, Which Thought and Patience strove in vain to find, Just when Despair and Doubt were swallowing all, Hath dropped into the heart without a call, Conspicuous as a Fire, and sweet as Youth, An everlasting stronghold to the mind.
Searching the skiey depths all night in vain, The starry seer hath known this mystery— That the sky orb, which over half the sky Hath baulked his chase, and mocked his utmost pain If (haply while the daylight poured amain Into the empty concave of the night) Hath stepped into his glass, as clear to sight As the one tree that stars a glassy plain, So is it known that some secretive Truth, Which Thought and Patience strove in vain to find, Just when Despair and Doubt were swallowing all, Hath dropped into the heart without a call, Conspicuous as a Fire, and sweet as Youth, An everlasting stronghold to the mind.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Thomas Burbidge (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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Page 628 · printed citation: Thomas Burbidge · subject: TRUTH
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