A memorial volume of sacred poetry by the late Sir John Bowring. To which is prefixed, a memoir of the author, by Lady Bowring |
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Upward.
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Upward.
------“Più elevato
“Nel affocato rido delle stelle!”
—Dante.
“Nel affocato rido delle stelle!”
—Dante.
Under the canopy of holy thought
I turn to Thee; and in the silent awe
Of Thy felt presence, reverently draw
Nearer Thy light; while marvellously brought
Within a sphere diviner, I am taught
New revelations and sublimer law
Unearthly, and I see what prophets saw
When on their spiritual souls Thy glory wrought
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In Thine own self, and all that's pure inorbed
With an ineffable beatitude—
Freed from all worldly taint, all element
Unworthy—I become a light-beam blent
In the grand Fountain-Sun of Joy or Good.
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