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The Intuitions Of The Soul
In every soul is born some thought of God,Of Beauty, or of Wisdom, Power, or Love;
No one so grovelling on the earth has trod,
But sought on sun-bright wings to soar above.
For man in God's own image first was made,
And dimly in himself these thoughts beholds;
The same in Nature too he sees displayed,
As she to him her glorious book unfolds.
Thus ever upward doth our being tend,
As we more clearly these great thoughts discern;
And ask of God his heavenly grace to lend,
That we as children all the truth may learn;
That in our souls, unclouded and divine,
The Life, the Light of men, may ever shine!
Poem No. 298; c. August 1863
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