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A PHANTOM to me thou appearest	A
But spite of this seeming I know	B
The magical image thou wearest	A
Is real as the lilies in blow	B
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Is as real and as fair as the fairest of all our fair lilies in blow	B
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Not alive to the senses external	C
Of hearing the touch or the sight	A
Not aught that would yield to the carnal	C
Desire a delusive delight	A
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But alive to the spirit art thou and a star to its path day night	A
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Not alive to the outer but inner	D
Keen sense of the spirit and when	E
I'm from the world and its din or	F
Low chat of most women and men	E
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I'm mantled thro' thee in a glory no pencil could portray nor pen	E
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Then lifted on Rapture's bright pinions	G
I tread the bright zones of the Blest	A
I enter the azure dominions	G
Of those who have long been at rest	A
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From turmoil the strife the opinions by which here the Good are	H
opprest	A
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Away o'er the gold crested mountains	G
I hie light of foot as the roe	B
I drink of the pellucid fountains	G
That flow in the valleys below	B
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And swiftly both valleys and mountains with the deepest	A
significance glow	B
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Then see I expressed in those valleys	G
Then see I enthroned in those hills	G
In dew adorned daffodowndillies	G
And daisies that bloom by the rills	G
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I see one vast Soul and that all is but what that inherent Soul wills	G
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Then see I But what serves the vision	I
Of music souled bard seer or sage	J
When Bigotry Self Superstition	I
Unite their fell forces to wage	J
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A war upon Truth Truth divine and when Learning would fetter	D
the age	J
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What what would it be to the nations	G
Did I give what I'd give for Love's sake	K
Would they hark to the blest revelations	G
I'd deem it my duty to make	K
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They'd say I had drank of a potion should doom me to dungeon or	F
stake	K
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Yet freely this much may be spoken	I
That when from her dungeon of clay	L
A bird from its fetterlet broken	I
The soul to the spheres wings away	L
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We find where go not a token of what our learned bigots portray	L
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There find we in joy or in sorrow	B
No day without night as we're told	A
No no night on which dawneth no morrow	B
But the scrolls of the past are unroll'd	A
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And we see as if shown in a mirror each fact there is there to	A
unfold	A
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On all can be seen by the spirit	A
Around us above or below	B
Nay even the homes we inherit	A
Are graced or defaced gloom or glow	B
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With merit our merit demerit our joy or shame glory or woe	B
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Not in dead pictures merely but living	M
Bright symbols our deed speak and move	N
And we see with the gifts we have given	I
In the God enshrined spirit of love	O
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The least of our sins tho' forgiven can never be cancelled Above	O
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There see we the unborn Hereafter	D
From out the live Present is born	P
That laughers are reft of their laughter	D
The mask from the masker is torn	P
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The crafty are whipt by their craft and the scorner is met by his	G
scorn	P
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We learn this but learn too whatever	D
The strength and the hue of our creed	A
A good deed's a good deed and never	D
Can other be than a good deed	A
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That Destiny's self cannot sever nor keep from the worthy their	Q
meed	A
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To clear sighted psychist is granted	A
All this and things deeper to know	B
That in accents of fire should be chanted	A
To creed ridden mortals below	B
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Could feelings by which I am haunted be taught in bright numbers	G
to flow	B
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But of this I despair and I wander	D
With one once a mortal to find	A
The marvels we see and their grandeur	R
Can never be shown to mankind	A
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Till each for himself's learned to ponder and feel the sad fact he	S
is blind	A

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