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THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
“THE kingdom of Heaven is within you,” quoth Jesus of old.But are there two kingdoms of Heaven? Another than this
He promised his faithful, a pleasaunce of palpable bliss,
Where they upon thrones should be seated of crystal and gold.
Was ever an adept more apt at hot blowing and cold?
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With all that the old world held sacred, Olympus to Dis,
He might have a demagogue been of the modernest mould.
Well, all but forgot is his doctrine, as shifting as sand,
Though long will it be ere Life's fabric whole made be and sound
Of the ruin he wrought for the world-all, the sorrow and scaith.
Yet one pearl of lore from his dust-heap is left us in hand, —
“The kingdom of Heaven is within you;” — whereon we may found
The faith of the Future, the lasting, the life-giving faith.
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