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Stones from The Quarry

or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison]
Ellison, Henry

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MAN'S RELATION TO GOD.

If boundless range of spacèd distance make
Those wondrous worlds (which with immensity
Our Thought within as sight without defy,
Among them “Koh-i-Noors,” vastness to break
A-many Earths from) diamond-points to take
In handfuls seem, Golcondas of the sky,
To yield for Beauty's brows a galaxy,
How far, in spirit-distance, Soul might ache
To feel itself from God! How less than small;
Were 't not that as those orbs the outward sight
Perceives, Him, inward-seen, in us, in all,
We aye discern, finitely-Infinite;
The eye of Conscience, focused to recall
Him still, “reduced” to Human requisite!
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