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 Rh These lines also are from Jerusalem. Compare with them the words in Heaven and Hell, "All deities reside in the human breast;" and the psalmists cry to the people, "Ye are Gods, and all of you are children of the Most High!"

And again let me quote:—

Is not this truly terrific poetry? Does it not recall St. Paul's passionate prayer? "O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

"This second aphorism indeed is the theme of all the prophetic books, as indeed it is the theme, if not of the songs of Innocence, at least of many of the songs of Experience,