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Lord Jesus as a little child	A
Upon some high ascension day	B
When a great people goes to pay	B
Allegiance and the tumult wild	A
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Roars by its thousand streets and fills	C
The billowy nation on the plain	D
As roar into the heaving main	D
A thousand torrents from the hills	C
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Caught in the current of the throng	E
Is drawn beneath the closing crowd	F
And drowning in the human flood	G
Is whirled in its dark depths along	E
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And low under the ruthless feet	H
Or high as to the awful knees	I
Of giants that he partly sees	I
Blinded with fear and faint with heat	H
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Mindless of all but what doth seem	J
And shut out from the upper light	K
Maddens within a monstrous night	K
Of limbs that crush him like a dream	J
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And when his strength no more can stand	L
And while he sinks in his last swound	L
Is lifted from the deadly ground	L
And led by a resistless hand	L
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And thro' the opening agony	M
Goes on and knows not where beside	L
The mastery of his guardian guide	L
Goes on and knows not where nor why	N
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Till when the sky no more is hid	L
Between the rocking heads he sees	I
A mount that rises by degrees	I
Above them like a pyramid	L
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And on the summit of the mount	L
A vacant throne and round the throne	O
Bright vestured princes zone by zone	O
In circles that he cannot count	L
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And feels at length a slanting way	B
And labours by his guardian good	L
Till forth as from a lessening wood	L
They step into the dazzling day	B
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And from the mount he sees below	P
The maivel of the marshalled plain	D
And what was tumult is a reign	D
And as he climbs the princes know	P
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His guide and fall about his feet	L
Before his face the courtiers fall	Q
And lo it is the Lord of all	Q
And on his throne he takes his seat	L
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And while strong fears transfix the boy	R
The mighty people far and near	S
Throw up upon the eye and ear	T
The flash and thunder of their joy	R
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And round the royal flag unfurled	L
In sequent love and circling awe	U
The legions lead their living law	V
And what was Chaos is a World	L
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So Lord Thou seest this mortal me	M
Deep in Titanic days that press	W
Incessant from unknown access	W
To issues that I cannot see	M
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Caught in the current stern and strong	E
I sink beneath the closing crowd	L
And drowning in the awful flood	L
Am whirled in its dark depths along	E
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Struggling with shows so thronged and thrust	L
On these wide eyes which bruise and burn	X
And flash with half seen sights or turn	X
To that worse darkness thick with dust	L
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That mindful of but what doth seem	J
And hopeless of the upper light	L
I madden in a monstrous night	L
Of shapes that crush me like a dream	J
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Then when my strength no more can stand	L
And while I sink in my last swound	L
Lo I am lifted from the ground	L
And led by a resistless hand	L
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And thro' the opening agony	M
Go on and know not where beside	L
The mastery of my guardian guide	L
Go on and know not where or why	N
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Nor tho' I cannot see Thy brow	Y
Distrust the hand I feel so dear	S
Nor question how Thou wert so near	S
Nor ask Thee whither goest Thou	Y
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Nor whence Thy footsteps first began	Z
Whence Lord Thou knowest whither Lord	L
Thou knowest how Thou knowest Oh Word	L
That can be touched oh Spoken Man	Z
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Enough enough if Thou wilt lead	L
To know Thou knowest enough to know	P
That darkling at Thy side I go	P
And this strong hand is Thine indeed	L
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Yet by that side unspent untrod	L
Oh let me clinging still to Thee	M
Between the swaying wonders see	M
The throne upon the mount of God	L
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And tho' they close before mine eye	N
And all my course is choked and shut	L
Feel Time grow steeper under foot	L
And know the final height is nigh	N
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And as one sees thro' cambered straits	A2
Of forests on his forward way	B
Horizons green of coloured day	B
Oh let me thro' the crowding Fates	A2
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Behold the light of skies unseen	B2
Till on that sudden Capitol	C2
I step forth to the sight of all	Q
That is and shall be and hath been	D2
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And Thou O King shalt take Thine own	O
Triumphant and Thy place fulfilled	L
The flaw of Nature shall be healed	L
And joyous round Thy central throne	O
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I see the vocal ages roll	E2
And all the human universe	F2
Like some great symphony rehearse	F2
The order of its perfect whole	E2
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And seek in vain where once I fell	G2
Nor know the anarchy I knew	H2
In those congenial motions due	H2
Of this great work where all is well	G2
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And smile with dazzled wisdom dumb	I2
Remembering all I said and sung	J2
That man asks more of mortal tongue	J2
Than skill to say 'Thy kingdom come '	-

Sydney Thompson Dobell

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