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 "He seems to hear a Heavenly Friend, And thro' thick veils to apprehend A labour working to an end.

"The end and the beginning vex His reason: many things perplex, With motions, checks, and counterchecks.

"He knows a baseness in his blood At such strange war with something good, He may not do the thing he would.

"Heaven opens inward, chasms yawn. Vast images in glimmering dawn, Half shown, are broken and withdrawn.

"Ah! sure within him and without, Could his dark wisdom find it out, There must be answer to his doubt.