 | The poetical works of John Godfrey Saxe
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THE VISION OF THE FAITHFUL.
Upon the faithful in the common things
Enjoined of Duty, rarest blessings wait.
A pious Nun (an ancient volume brings
The legend and the lesson), while she sate
Reading some scriptures of the Sacred Word,
And marveling much at Christ's exceeding grace,
Saw in her room a Vision of the Lord,
With sudden splendor filling all the place!
Whereat she knelt, enraptured; when a bell
Signaled her hour to feed the convent's poor;
Which humble duty done, she sought her cell,
And lo! the Vision, brighter than before,
Who, smiling, spake: “Even so is heaven obtained;
I—hadst thou lingered here—had not remained!”
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