The Altar or, Meditations in Verse On The Great Christian Sacrifice By The Author of "The Cathedral," [i.e. Isaac Williams] |
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“He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God Whom he hath not seen?”
But since our God Incarnate is on high,
And in mysterious channels from the skies
Blends with our fallen nature; and brought nigh
Flows into all our human sympathies,
The everlasting Life of those that die;
No longer may our love thus buried lie
In low-born cares, with not a thought to rise,
And walk amid those pure societies;
Till life itself becomes the sepulchre
Of the undying soul; itself the prey
Of creeping things, or things far worse than they;
Imbedded in unworthy hope and fear,
Ere in the tomb, in its appointed day,
Its mantle of corruption disappear.
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