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BEARING ON HIS GOSPEL
So when he turned Evangelist, see what came,—
Writ on his page were stories, with sweet tears
Baptized by all the yearnings of the years.
The King looks forth from beauty, not from flame;
The earth grows prouder and puts off her shame
With loftier companionship than appears
In Fauns and Dryads when the wanderer nears,
And the idyllic earth is not the same.
Still by the Grecian taught each age surveys
Things fairer than are song's creations all,
Yet in historic verity strongly set
The symphony of Bethlehem's pastoral,
The broken litanies, the men who gaze
On the ascending Form from Olivet.
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