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SEEING.
It needs not scholar'd training to receive
Truth when it comes; it often stands aloof
From that; while, simply seeing, we believe,
Nor ask for any proof.
Truth when it comes; it often stands aloof
From that; while, simply seeing, we believe,
Nor ask for any proof.
For as the linkëd notes are to the ear
Proof of their harmony, so truth appeals
Unto an inward faculty as clear,
That argues not, but feels.
Proof of their harmony, so truth appeals
Unto an inward faculty as clear,
That argues not, but feels.
And when we've asked the seer for some test
That this is as he says, and that is so,
He has not given any, but confess'd
“I cannot, yet I know.”
That this is as he says, and that is so,
He has not given any, but confess'd
“I cannot, yet I know.”
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