Stones from The Quarry or, Moods of Mind. By Henry Browne [i.e. Henry Ellison] |
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THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD. |
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THE LIGHTS OF THE WORLD.
The great precursive souls that light the ageWith the full intellectual day they shed,
Are in due course of nature heralded
By a long dawn, ere full on the world's stage
They rise, and from all mists can disengage
Their radiance. So with faint lights long o'erspread
(Dawn as of resurrection from the dead),
Through the long night of its dark pilgrimage
The Pole emerges. Then in sight of all
(God's lights) they shine, reveal, and prophesy;
And at meridian the shadows fall
Away from mortal things; from the world's eye
The scales remove; things that seemed great show small,
And the world breaks its idols, for they lie!
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