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Soul-Sickness
How many of the body's health complain,When they some deeper malady conceal;
Some unrest of the soul, some secret pain,
Which thus its presence doth to them reveal.
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A name for this soul-sickness e'er to find;
A remedy for health and strength decayed,
Whose cause and cure are wholly of the mind.
To higher nature is the soul allied,
And restless seeks its being's Source to know;
Finding nor health, nor strength in aught beside;
How often vainly sought in things below!
Whether in sunny clime, or sacred stream,
Or plant of wondrous powers of which we dream.
Poem No. 193; c. 3 June 1865
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