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Into his heart there flashed prophetic light;

With sudden force the secret was revealed;

What but one treasure, sacred in his sight,

Lay there concealed?

As one of Heaven bid who dare not wait,

With step grown firm as with the strength of youth,

He hastened to his comrade to relate

The wondrous truth.

With hand uplifted, and a light sublime

In eyes that full of some new wonder shone,

He seemed a holy seer of olden time

To look upon.

Yet from his parted lips no message came;

In silence reached he his immortal goal;

And from its dwelling in the earthly frame

Went forth his soul.