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INVOCATION.
O love, descend and with celestial fire
Dissolve my iciness of soul! Dispel,
With thy supernal light, the clouds which hang
Like phantoms terrible above my soul.
Within its foul and murky blackness earth
Hath me enshrouded, and no ray divine
From thy far distant sun peers through the gloom,
To chase its darkness and its frozen air.
Let not those horrid monsters twin, Grim Night
And Dreary Winter, reign in me for aye!
Thee I invoke, Spirit of Light divine!
Drive out the fell usurpers, and thy throne
Establish, and o'er all my soul do thou
Sway thy benignant sceptre!
Dissolve my iciness of soul! Dispel,
With thy supernal light, the clouds which hang
Like phantoms terrible above my soul.
Within its foul and murky blackness earth
Hath me enshrouded, and no ray divine
From thy far distant sun peers through the gloom,
To chase its darkness and its frozen air.
Let not those horrid monsters twin, Grim Night
And Dreary Winter, reign in me for aye!
Thee I invoke, Spirit of Light divine!
Drive out the fell usurpers, and thy throne
Establish, and o'er all my soul do thou
Sway thy benignant sceptre!
Reign thou there
Alone, supreme! With undivided rule
Subject all thoughts, affections, sentiments,
Emotions, aspirations, to thyself!
O! I would be thy child, and like to thee!
Would lean on thee as trustingly as sleeps
Upon its mother's breast th' unconscious babe.
Yea! in thy being's boundless ocean, I
Would plunge, and lose myself, and be no more!
Alone, supreme! With undivided rule
Subject all thoughts, affections, sentiments,
Emotions, aspirations, to thyself!
O! I would be thy child, and like to thee!
Would lean on thee as trustingly as sleeps
Upon its mother's breast th' unconscious babe.
Yea! in thy being's boundless ocean, I
Would plunge, and lose myself, and be no more!
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