 | Mansoul or The Riddle of the World |  |
We, in óur unworthiness, stood the while dismayed.
In our dark breasts remainéd little breath:
And that in speechless utterance, we breathed forth;
Towards Ínfinite Ear, that hears beyond the Stars.
Unto WHOM ascend Mans prayers.
In our dark breasts remainéd little breath:
And that in speechless utterance, we breathed forth;
Towards Ínfinite Ear, that hears beyond the Stars.
Unto WHOM ascend Mans prayers.
We dazing thus;
Withdrew us to, thereby, an hollow place;
Prepared in a dim bosom of the rock:
Where given us was to méditate a space;
Of all things lately happened unto us.
Withdrew us to, thereby, an hollow place;
Prepared in a dim bosom of the rock:
Where given us was to méditate a space;
Of all things lately happened unto us.
In Názara, a village-town, of Galilea;
Then little, as without Jewry, of Jews esteemed:
Grew up, from his womb-birth, the child Jeshua;
Reputed son of One, a devout man,
Who wrought in wood, of Davids royal line.
Little we óf his pensive years of youth;
In our new Greekish scriptures, find recorded:
And of his early manhood even less.
Then little, as without Jewry, of Jews esteemed:
Grew up, from his womb-birth, the child Jeshua;
Reputed son of One, a devout man,
Who wrought in wood, of Davids royal line.
Little we óf his pensive years of youth;
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And of his early manhood even less.
There amidst Hebrews, dwelt a mingled kin;
From Over-Jordan, subject now to Rome;
Which, ín late generations, had received;
Through Macedonian Rulers, in those parts;
Some tíncture of Gréekish civil life and arts:
Which testify their old cities, now remote
And ruinous sites: whose walls remain and arcs,
Builded of marble and squared basalt blocks.
Men of like speech, kindred of Hebrew race:
Of Kedar, another tribal parentage.
From Over-Jordan, subject now to Rome;
Which, ín late generations, had received;
Through Macedonian Rulers, in those parts;
Some tíncture of Gréekish civil life and arts:
Which testify their old cities, now remote
And ruinous sites: whose walls remain and arcs,
Builded of marble and squared basalt blocks.
Men of like speech, kindred of Hebrew race:
Of Kedar, another tribal parentage.
Dwelling, the Book saith, under Josephs roof;
And dipping daily with him ín one dish;
According tó the custom óf those parts:
On Miriams son, his bréthren bélieved not.
What day, come to full age, Jeshûa rose up,
A Spirit is come upon him! And from midst
Them all: to preach glad tidings to the House
Of Jacob, (the Jews fórmer Prophets wont;)
From upland Nazaras streets, went Jéshua forth.
And dipping daily with him ín one dish;
According tó the custom óf those parts:
On Miriams son, his bréthren bélieved not.
What day, come to full age, Jeshûa rose up,
A Spirit is come upon him! And from midst
Them all: to preach glad tidings to the House
Of Jacob, (the Jews fórmer Prophets wont;)
From upland Nazaras streets, went Jéshua forth.
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