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There may we learn at daybreak and nightfall, ]

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There may we learn at daybreak and nightfall,
As day and dusk and darkness cover us,
With earth and sky and the omniverous
Infinite sea of ceaseless flood and fall,—
There may we learn how love is spiritual
And death divine and life illustrious,
There may we find at last the fabulous
Truth and compose the soul's high ritual.
There may we haply find ourselves, the goal,
Ourselves, the source of all enlightenment,
And thus discern how earth and sky and sea
And love and life and death and destiny
Are wrought of one eternal element
Quarried in dim deep strata of the Soul.