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The fourteen centuries fall away	A
Between us and the Afric saint	B
And at his side we urge to day	A
The immemorial quest and old complaint	B
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No outward sign to us is given	C
From sea or earth comes no reply	D
Hushed as the warm Numidian heaven	C
He vainly questioned bends our frozen sky	D
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No victory comes of all our strife	E
From all we grasp the meaning slips	F
The Sphinx sits at the gate of life	E
With the old question on her awful lips	F
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In paths unknown we hear the feet	G
Of fear before and guilt behind	H
We pluck the wayside fruit and eat	G
Ashes and dust beneath its golden rind	H
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From age to age descends unchecked	I
The sad bequest of sire to son	C
The body's taint the mind's defect	I
Through every web of life the dark threads run	C
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Oh why and whither God knows all	J
I only know that He is good	K
And that whatever may befall	J
Or here or there must be the best that could	K
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Between the dreadful cherubim	L
A Father's face I still discern	M
As Moses looked of old on Him	L
And saw His glory into goodness turn	M
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For He is merciful as just	N
And so by faith correcting sight	O
I bow before His will and trust	N
Howe'er they seem He doeth all things right	O
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And dare to hope that Tie will make	P
The rugged smooth the doubtful plain	Q
His mercy never quite forsake	P
His healing visit every realm of pain	Q
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That suffering is not His revenge	R
Upon His creatures weak and frail	S
Sent on a pathway new and strange	T
With feet that wander and with eyes that fail	S
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That o'er the crucible of pain	Q
Watches the tender eye of Love	U
The slow transmuting of the chain	Q
Whose links are iron below to gold above	U
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Ah me we doubt the shining skies	V
Seen through our shadows of offence	V
And drown with our poor childish cries	V
The cradle hymn of kindly Providence	V
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And still we love the evil cause	V
And of the just effect complain	Q
We tread upon life's broken laws	V
And murmur at our self inflicted pain	Q
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We turn us from the light and find	H
Our spectral shapes before us thrown	W
As they who leave the sun behind	H
Walk in the shadows of themselves alone	W
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And scarce by will or strength of ours	V
We set our faces to the day	A
Weak wavering blind the Eternal Powers	V
Alone can turn us from ourselves away	A
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Our weakness is the strength of sin	X
But love must needs be stronger far	Y
Outreaching all and gathering in	X
The erring spirit and the wandering star	Y
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A Voice grows with the growing years	V
Earth hushing down her bitter cry	D
Looks upward from her graves and hears	V
'The Resurrection and the Life am I '	-
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O Love Divine whose constant beam	L
Shines on the eyes that will not see	V
And waits to bless us while we dream	L
Thou leavest us because we turn from thee	V
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All souls that struggle and aspire	Z
All hearts of prayer by thee are lit	A2
And dim or clear thy tongues of fire	B2
On dusky tribes and twilight centuries sit	A2
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Nor bounds nor clime nor creed thou know'st	G
Wide as our need thy favors fall	J
The white wings of the Holy Ghost	C2
Stoop seen or unseen o'er the heads of all	J
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O Beauty old yet ever new	D2
Eternal Voice and Inward Word	E2
The Logos of the Greek and Jew	D2
The old sphere music which the Samian heard	E2
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Truth which the sage and prophet saw	V
Long sought without but found within	X
The Law of Love beyond all law	V
The Life o'erflooding mortal death and sin	X
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Shine on us with the light which glowed	F2
Upon the trance bound shepherd's way	A
Who saw the Darkness overflowed	F2
And drowned by tides of everlasting Day	A
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Shine light of God make broad thy scope	G2
To all who sin and suffer more	H2
And better than we dare to hope	G2
With Heaven's compassion make our longings poor	I2

John Greenleaf Whittier

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