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“Send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water
and cool my tongue.”
S. Luke xvi. 24.
Bodies surviving with the dead!
Was it from some primeval creed
In their Egyptian pilgrimage
Glean'd by the poet and the sage?
Was it from some primeval creed
In their Egyptian pilgrimage
Glean'd by the poet and the sage?
Or that, 'mid wreck and waste of sin,
The yearnings of the heart within
Somehow, as from a living shrine,
Unconsciously of truth divine?
The yearnings of the heart within
Somehow, as from a living shrine,
Unconsciously of truth divine?
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