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II.
[The pious man]
The pious man,In this bad world, when mists and couchant storms
Hide Heaven's fine circlet, springs aloft in faith
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Of ether, where the day is never veiled
With intervening vapours, and looks down
Serene upon the troublous sea, that hides
The earth's fair breast, that sea whose nether face
To grovelling mortals frowns and darkens all;
But on whose billowy back, from man concealed,
The glaring sunbeam plays.
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