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 Take better part, with manlier heart, Thine adult spirit can; No God, no Truth, receive it ne'er— Believe it ne'er—O Man! But turn not then to seek again What first the ill began; No God, it saith; ah, wait in faith God's self-completing plan; Receive it not, but leave it not, And wait it out, O Man!

'The Man that went the cloud within Is gone and vanished quite; He cometh not,' the people cries, 'Nor bringeth God to sight: Lo these thy gods, that safety give, Adore and keep the feast!' Deluding and deluded cries The Prophet's brother-Priest: And Israel all bows down to fall Before the gilded beast.

Devout, indeed! that priestly creed, O Man, reject as sin; The clouded hill attend thou still, And him that went within. He yet shall bring some worthy thing For waiting souls to see: Some sacred word that he hath heard Their light and life shall be; Some lofty part, than which the heart Adopt no nobler can, Thou shalt receive, thou shalt believe And thou shalt do, O Man!