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ad flung her adamantine chain	A
When thro' the abyss of my spirit 'Glory '	B
A deep voice cried and 'Glory ' then this strain	A
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'A spark eternal from the co eternal	C
And inner source of light ere time began	D
The soul built from the dust its home external	C
And so became what we now know as man	D
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'The outer temple built an inner finer	E
From this and like to this was next ordained	F
In which might be attained a life diviner	E
Than could within the outer be attained	F
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'Thus in the image in man's form reflected	G
From out the universal Soul the soul	H
Its individuality projected	G
And so became a whole within the whole	H
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'From root and knot from knot and leaf to blossom	I
Upsprang by slow degrees the oak to view	J
So by degrees as slow from out God's bosom	I
The vital spark to man immortal grew	J
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'The swaddles that enswathe the babe those swaddles	K
Are rent asunder as we stronger grow	E
And for the prate that pleased us in our cradles	K
We're taught a higher deeper lore to know	E
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'So by degrees man thus obtains his being	L
So by degrees his mental prime's obtained	F
When grown from Man the Blind to Man the Seeing	L
The chains are rent in twain by which he's chained	F
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'Then from the chaos of the days primeval	C
Into the future far his ken extends	K
Then to his ken what error seemed and evil	C
Appear but instruments to noble ends	K
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'The shadow's self thus seen becomes a splendour	E
The mystic maze pervaded by a plan	D
And laws sublime are seen to rule and render	E
Harmonic what but discord seemed to man	D
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'In matter's seen the means to vanquish matter	E
In many a dismal ban a blessing bright	M
In states chaotic what their gloom might scatter	E
And their domains enshrine in living light	M
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'The darkest woe the brightest joy enclaspeth	N
In what seems false is seen the true a power	E
Which grasped by man as rich a mace he graspeth	N
As ever graced the mythic gods of yore	E
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'A thinker clear nor less a doer even	O
A more than soul Titanic he who still	P
Can make the very death forged bolts of heaven	Q
To dance attendance on his potent will	P
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'The very lightning that the vision dazzles	K
The very tempest that the forest rends	K
Are vassals bound unto his will and vassals	K
That help to realize the highest ends	K
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'Even as he wills empires arise inventions	K
Are seen uniting foreign land to land	R
And where but winds and waves held dire contentions	K
By sweetest intercourse the deeps are spann'd	R
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'A victor o'er the elements a victor	E
E'en over self he moves till lo appears	K
Upon the earth he treads the very picture	E
Of what can be in the seraphic spheres	K
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'From higher than the seraph state descended	G
Up to the goal from whence he came he climbs	K
And when the days of mortal life are ended	G
Still upward scales he thro' long future times	K
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'Just as the bee with honey laden flieth	N
To hive the guerdon earned by toil and pang	S
So by experience enriched he hieth	N
With power to gift the Power from whom he sprang	S
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'Yea ever moves he glory ward and ever	E
Does glory to the Love Eterne accord '	-
Thus rang that voice within my soul and never	E
Shall I forget how sweet the voice thus heard	T

Joseph Skipsey

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