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216 It is—last stage of all—

When we are frozen up within, and quite

The phantom of ourselves,

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost,

Which blamed the living man.

THE PROGRESS OF POESY.

PIS ALLER.

" is blind because of sin;

Revelation makes him sure:

Without that, who looks within

Looks in vain, for all's obscure."

Nay, look closer into man!

Tell me, can you find indeed

Nothing sure, no moral plan

Clear prescribed, without your creed?