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1840.] The passive Master lent his hand

To the vast Soul that o'er him planned,

And the same power that reared the shrine,

Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.

Ever the fiery Pentecost

Girds with one flame the countless host,

Trances the heart through chanting quires,

And through the priest the mind inspires.

The word unto the prophet spoken,

Was writ on tables yet unbroken;

The word by seers or sybils told

In groves of oak or fanes of gold,

Still floats upon the morning wind,

Still whispers to the willing mind.

One accent of the Holy Ghost

The heedless world hath never lost.

I know what say the Fathers wise,—

The Book itself before me lies,—

Old Chrysostom, best Augustine,

And he who blent both in his line,

The younger Golden Lips or mines,

Taylor, the Shakspeare of divines;

His words are music in my ear,

I see his cowled portrait dear,

And yet for all his faith could see,

I would not the good bishop be.

leaves the earth, and says, enough and more

Unto thee have I given, oh Earth.—For all

With hand free and ungrudging gave I up,—

But now I leave thy pale hopes and dear pains,

The rude fields where so many years I’ve tilled,

And where no other feeling gave me strength,

Save that from them my home was aye in view,

For only transient clouds could hide from me

My spirit's home, whence it came, where should go:—

Enough, more than enough, now let me rest.

J.

, and dreamed that hiſe was Beauty;

I woke, and found that life was Duty.

Was thy dream then a shadowy lie?

Toil on, sad heart, courageously,

And thou shalt find thy dream to be

A moonday light and truth to thee.