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Rh Like one who walks in sleep a donlitf ul spun He gropes through all hia days, till Death un-close His cheated eyea and in one blinding gleam, Wakes, to discern the sabstance from the dream.

I say not therefore I deny the birth. The Vigin's motherhood, the resurrection, Who know not how mine own soul came to earth, Nor what shall follow death. Man's imperfection May bound not even in thought the height and girth Of God's omnipotence; neath his direction We may approach his essence, but that He Should dwarf Himself to us—it cannot be!

The God who balances the clouds, who spread The sky above us like a molten glass, The God who abut the sea with doors, who tud The corner-stone of earth, who caused the Spring forth upon the wilderness, and made The darkness scatter and the night to pass— That He should clothe Himself with flesh, and more Midst worms a worm—this, sun, moon, stars disprove,