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Above below in sky and sod	A
In leaf and spar in star and man	B
Well might the wise Athenian scan	B
The geometric signs of God	A
The measured order of His plan	B
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And India's mystics sang aright	A
Of the One Life pervading all	C
One Being's tidal rise and fall	C
In soul and form in sound and sight	A
Eternal outflow and recall	C
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God is and man in guilt and fear	D
The central fact of Nature owns	E
Kneels trembling by his altar stones	E
And darkly dreams the ghastly smear	D
Of blood appeases and atones	E
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Guilt shapes the Terror deep within	F
The human heart the secret lies	E
Of all the hideous deities	E
And painted on a ground of sin	F
The fabled gods of torment rise	E
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And what is He The ripe grain nods	E
The sweet dews fall the sweet flowers blow	G
But darker signs His presence show	G
The earthquake and the storm are God's	E
And good and evil interflow	G
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O hearts of love O souls that turn	H
Like sunflowers to the pure and best	A
To you the truth is manifest	A
For they the mind of Christ discern	H
Who lean like John upon His breast	A
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In him of whom the sibyl told	A
For whom the prophet's harp was toned	A
Whose need the sage and magian owned	A
The loving heart of God behold	A
The hope for which the ages groaned	A
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Fade pomp of dreadful imagery	I
Wherewith mankind have deified	A
Their hate and selfishness and pride	A
Let the scared dreamer wake to see	I
The Christ of Nazareth at his side	A
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What doth that holy Guide require	J
No rite of pain nor gift of blood	A
But man a kindly brotherhood	A
Looking where duty is desire	J
To Him the beautiful and good	A
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Gone be the faithlessness of fear	D
And let the pitying heaven's sweet rain	K
Wash out the altar's bloody stain	K
The law of Hatred disappear	D
The law of Love alone remain	K
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How fall the idols false and grim	L
And to their hideous wreck above	M
The emblems of the Lamb and Dove	M
Man turns from God not God from him	L
And guilt in suffering whispers Love	M
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The world sits at the feet of Christ	A
Unknowing blind and unconsoled	A
It yet shall touch His garment's fold	A
And feel the heavenly Alchemist	A
Transform its very dust to gold	A
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The theme befitting angel tongues	E
Beyond a mortal's scope has grown	N
O heart of mine with reverence own	N
The fulness which to it belongs	E
And trust the unknown for the known	N

John Greenleaf Whittier

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