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124 Waging war on God Almighty, by destroying feeble man, With the heathen for a rear-guard, and the learned for the van ? — "I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most ? That the strongest wander farthest, and more hopelessly are lost ? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain ? — " I have many things to tell you, but ye cannot bear them now." Is it so, O Christ in heaven, that whichever way we go Walls of darkness must surround us, things we would but cannot know ?