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 354 CRITICAL STUDIES And drama of live forms Bursts from the teeming swarms : And sleep is revelation, Life's inward preparation. And thou mayst know thy waking, By light from sleepland breaking, Thy marriage and thy house, If golden are thy vows : And what shall be the power That rules the next day's hour." Almost equally beautiful, though somewhat more quaint and less limpid, is " Patience," p. 8 : — ' ' Wander, and see how far Star is away from star ; Mysteriously they live, Far from each other thrive, And when their evening comes. The light of prayer outblooms. And so thy course of being. Is far from others seeing : [others'] All men are far from all, Distance doth round them fall : 'Tis the star-mantle still : The gulf of heavenly will. Moreover breadth of line Doth around being twine : To show that out of order Springeth each being's border, And that the vine of God Bears all things on its rod. And then again the way That doth round being play, Is blended with the'form That wraps all nature's swarm. And multifold and free. Stands the immensity.