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GROWTH OF KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
But ere heaven's cressets burn along its plain,
The Master comes. And as a man, all night
Lull'd in a room full fronting ocean's might,
First waking sees a whiteness on his pane,
A little dawning whiteness, then again
A little line insufferably bright
Edging the ripples, orbing on outright
Until the glory he may scarce sustain;
And as a mighty city far-descried,
Although the same from each ascension high
Looks strangely different to the merchantmen
Who wend their way thereto by hill or glen—
So by St. John's deep meditation eyed
That Nature grew to God's own majesty.
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