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Powerful, patient, vast serenity
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Powerful, patient, vast serenityOf Nature's fathomless tranquillities:
Inviolate silence of the starlit skies,
Deep respiration of the windless sea:
There may we rear the towers of thought in thee,
Pluck forth the secret from the Sphinx's eyes,
Ransom from countless chance captivities
Man's inarticulate divinity!
There may we find the faith which dares disown
Nothing that is, the faith by which alone
We, peradventure, shall be justified;
There may the Soul go forth and there return
Or here no more, but pass from bourne to bourne,
Ever from life to life unsatisfied!
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