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Rh Writing on pitiless heavens one pitying name;

And 'neath the shadow of the dread eclipse

It shines on dying eyes and pallid lips.

"TO REST FROM WEARY WORK"

PART III

RECOGNITION

I

darkness of the visionary night

This I beheld: Wide space and therein God,

God who in dual nature doth abide—

Love, and the Loved One, Power and Beauty's self;

Him even the spirit's eye might not transfix

But sidelong gazed, fainting before the light.

And forth from God did come,—with dreadful thrill,

And starry music like to million wires