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Revelation
Addressing reason, yet above it still,The True Religion speaks unto the soul;
It bids the conflicts of the mind be still,
And doth each motive of the will controul.
From low to higher still is nature's law,
Written on stony tablets of the earth;
And things we see upward the spirit draw
To things, and beings of a nobler birth.
Nor man alone aspires; but God descends,
And to our faculties doth lend his aid;
That we, amidst our doubts, may see the ends,
For which the world, and all therein were made;
See too his gracious love for sinful man,
More wondrous far than e'en Creation's plan.
Poem No. 26; c. 7 December 1867
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