Madmoments: or First Verseattempts By a Bornnatural. Addressed to the Lightheaded of Society at Large, by Henry Ellison |
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ON GHIBERTI'S GATES TO THE BAPTISTERY AT FLOBENCE. |
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ON GHIBERTI'S GATES TO THE BAPTISTERY AT FLOBENCE.
Worthy to be the Gates of Paradise!To be? they are! for he who enters here
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Dead to the World and all its Vanities,
Which now without those doors forgotten lies,
Hath entered into Heaven! for his Ear
The mortal voices hymning faintly near
Are turned to swelling Angelharmonies,
And as he kneels, no Image of vain Stone
Bends mutely, but the Saviour's self instead,
Consoling and exalting! lo! all's gone!
Walls, Altar, Dome, all, all has vanishëd,
The Outward, Visible, which was alone
As the Foretemple, like a Dream, hath fled,
And the eternal Soul alone abides,
Its own best Temple, vast, unlimited,
Where we adore the Spirit which resides
Within, no Semblance, but the true Godhead!
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