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Fulmina coelo nulla sereno	A
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LUCRETIUS	B
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God speaks by silence Voice dividing man	C
Who cannot triumph but he saith Aha	D
Who cannot suffer without Woe is me	E
Who ere obedience follow on the will	F
Must say Thou shalt who looking back saith Then	G
And forward Then and feebly nameth Now	H
His changing foothold 'twixt eternities	B
Whose love is pain until it finds a voice	B
Whose seething anger bubbles in a curse	B
Who summarizes truth in party cries	B
And bounds the universe with category	E
This word dividing speech pre minent man	C
Deeming his Maker even as himself	I
Must find Him in a voice ere he believe	J
We fret at silence and our turbulent hearts	B
Say If He be a God He will speak out	K
We rail at silence and would fain disturb	L
The duly ordered course of signless years	B
We moan at silence till our quivering need	M
Becomes incarnate and our sore desire	N
Passes into a voice Then say we Lo	A
He is for He hath spoken thus and thus	B
He said	O
So ever radiating self	I
Conditioning a God to our degree	E
We make a word the top of argument	P
Fond weaklings we whose utmost scope and goal	Q
Is but a pillared formula whereon	C
To hang the garlands of our faith and love	R
Well was it in the childhood of the world	S
To cry for open vision and a voice	B
But in the riper time when we have reached	T
The kindly heart of universal law	U
And safe assurance of essential good	V
Say rather now that had there been no God	W
There had been many voices freaks of sound	X
Capricious thunders in unclouded skies	B
Portentous utterance on the trembling hills	B
And Pythian antics in oracular caves	B
Yea signs and wonders had been multiplied	Y
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And god succeeded god the latest ever	N
Lord paramount until the craz d world	S
Had lost its judgment 'mid contending claims	B
O men It is the child's heart in the man's	B
That will not rest without a lullaby	Z
That will not trust the everlasting arm	A2
Unless it hear the voice in tale or song	B2
It is the child's heart in the man's that seeks	B
In elements of old Semitic thought	C2
And wondrous syllables of Grecian tongue	D2
Recorded witness of another way	E2
Of things than that which God hath willed to be	E
Our daily life And if in times of old	F2
The child heart caught at wonder and the charm	A2
Of sundered system if untutored faith	G2
Found confirmation in arrested suns	B
And gnomon shadows of reverted hours	B
And in the agonized Thus saith the Lord	H2
Of mantled seers with fateful burden bowed	I2
We children of a clearer purer light	J2
Despising not the day of smaller things	B
Nor calling out to kick the ladder foot	K2
Because our finger tips have verged on rest	L2
We youths whose spring brings on the lawful hope	M2
To loose the girdle of the maiden Truth	N2
We men whose joyous summer morn hath heard	O2
The marriage bell of Reason and of Faith	G2
We turning from the windy ways of the world	S
And gazing nearly on the silent march	P2
Of love in law and law in love proclaim	Q2
In that He works in silence He is God	W
So from the very permanence of things	B
And voiceless continuity of love	R
Unmixed with human passion fretted not	R2
By jealousy impatience or revenge	S2
We gather courage and confirm our faith	G2
So casting back the scoffer's words we say	E2
Even because there is no fitful sign	C
And since our fathers fell asleep all things	B
Continue as at first this wonder of no change	T2
Reputes the God to whom a thousand years	B
Are as one day Yea to the willing ear	U2
The dumb supremacy of patience speaks	B
Louder than Sinai And if yet we lack	V2
The witness and the voucher of a voice	B
What hindereth that we who stand between	C
The living Nature and the living God	W
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Between them yet in both their ministers	B
By noble life and converse pure should be	E
Ourselves the very voice of God on earth	W2
Living epistles known and read of all	X2
O Brothers Were we wholly soul possessed	L2
With this Divine regard would we but soar	Y2
Beyond the cloud and centralize our faith	G2
Upon the stable sun would we reject	Z2
Kaleidoscopic views of broken truth	N2
Distorted to the turn of perverse will	F
Make daylight through traditionary ranks	B
Of intervening hells and fix the eye	Z
Upon the shining heart of Supreme Love	R
Would we But why prolong the bootless would	V
I who know all the weakness and the fear	A3
The weary ways of labyrinthine doubt	K
The faintness on the dizzy height who lack	V2
The Gabriel pinion wherewithal to range	T2
The unsupporting medium of pure sky	Z
Who know the struggle of the natural soul	Q
Breathing a finer ether than its own	C
Who venturing on specular power too vast	B3
Scathed by my own reflector fall down blind	C3
Who at the least wind of calamity	E
Drag shiftlessly the anchor of my hope	M2
And shrieking from the waves catch gladly at	D3
A Name and Sake wherewith to close a prayer	E3
Yet though I faint and fail I may not take	F3
My weakness for the Truth nor dare misread	M
The manual sign of God upon the heart	G3
The pledge beyond the power of any voice	B
Of sure advance unto the perfect whole	Q
Nor treat the tablet tracing of His hand	H3
As it were some old tombstone left apart	G3
In grave yard places for the years to hide	Y
Deep in irrelevant and noxious growth	I3
Oh Brothers push the weeds aside lay bare	E3
The monument and clear the earthy mould	F2
From the Divine intaglio Read thereon	C
The uncancelled charter of your native hope	M2
Nor crave articulate thunders any more	Y2
Read there the universal law of good	V
Unqualified evangel blessedness	B
The birthright of all being peace that lends	B
No weak subscription unto sin and yet	J3
Disarms despair Read and believe no more	Y2
In final triumph of concreted sin	C
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In any soul that cometh forth from God	W
And lives and moves and hath its being in Him	K3
Read thus and pray the while that he who writes	B
Reck his own rede	W
Oh Sister would I bruise	B
The snowy petals of thy prayerful faith	G2
Or chill the tendril twinings of thy hope	M2
With evil influence of wintry scorn	C
Would God that any faith of mine could give	L3
Such quiet stability unto my feet	W
As thine to thine Oh if thy kneeling wakes	B
A smile at all 'tis Heaven that smiles because	B
Thou ask'st so little God will o'erfulfil	Q
Thy dreams of silver with unmeted gold	W
Oh Sister though thou dost believe in wrath	M3
Though shapes of woe flit through thine imagery	E
Though thou has ta'en the cloud into thy faith	G2
The little rift of blue that breaks thy dark	N3
Brings thee more comfort and more fix d hope	M2
Than unto me this cloudless open vast	W
Wherein my soul floats weary and alone	C
Yet think not we are voyaging apart	W
To different havens Truth is one Yet One	C
Alone hath reached it in straight course Each soul	Q
Hath its own track its currents and its gales	B
And each toward sequel of attainment must	W
Fetch many a compass Some keep land in view	O3
The beacon hills of old authority	E
And draw assurance from a shore defined	W
Though it be dire with cloud and capes of wrath	M3
While some shoot boldly into perilous seas	B
Pacific seeming seas yet not without	W
A weary loneliness of land forsook	P3
And fear of sudden cyclone and still more	Y2
Deceitful calm Or if the metaphor	Y2
Be yet too cruel for a sister's heart	W
Oh think that in the common way of love	R
We are never out of hearing but may each	Q3
Whene'er we will join hand with each and say	E2
God Father Love the triune sum of truth	N2
And Watchword of the universal Christ	W
Sister I think and in the thought take heart	W
That when the Day of Reconcilement comes	B
As come it will the all transmuting Truth	N2
May find affinities in things that seem	R3
To us the very elements of war	Y2
Dost thou remember how in childhood's days	B
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One gave us with to recognize the south	S3
By turning faceward to the mid day sun	C
And we believed and took the facile plan	C
For unexceptioned law But even now	C
I hear the chime of Austral noon and lo	Q
The sun is in the north Yet 'tis the same	Q2
Bright sun that shone and shines upon us both	I3
On me the evil and on thee the good	W
Yea more it is the same noon glaring here	U2
That now with hints of orient twilight steals	B

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