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166 Only in spiritual terror can the Truth

Come through the broken mind&mdash;as the pease burst

Out of a broken pease-cod.

Rh Say to them,

That Nature would lack all in her most need,

Could not the soul find truth as in a flash,

Upon the battle-field, or in the midst

Of overwhelming waves, and say to them&mdash;

But no, they would but answer as I bid.

You want somebody to get up an argument with.

Look out and see if there is any one

There in the street&mdash;I cannot leave the glass,