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 Alas! as well the parent shape Might hope its shadow to escape Whose dull, untiring mockery, Still haunts it wheresoe'er it fly. Yet, if revealed in one wide glow Light's glories from the heavens might flow That shade, o'erwhelmed in the bright maze. Would vanish from our baffled gaze. E'en thus it soothes the soul to think That, when disrobed of earthly stain. And clay to kindred clay shall shrink, The immortal spirit shall remain, A pure and perfect emanation Of the great source from whence it came, Soaring in heavenly aspiration, As a lambent flame, To mingle with the quoir above Who chant unending hymns of love;— That there the soul may float in bliss, Drinking in at every pore Tides of celestial mysteries Which fooled its keenest search before; Filled with a joy for utterance too deep And holy love which doth its being steep;