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DOGMATISM.
“Thus it is written.”—Where? Oh, where?In the blue chart of the air?
In the sunlight? in the dark?
In the distant starry spark?
In the white scroll of the cloud?
In the waved line of the flood?
In the forms of peak or cliff,
In the rock's deep hieroglyph?
In the scribbled veins of metal?
In the tracings on the petal?
In the fire's fantastic loom?
In the fur, or scale, or plume?
In the greeting brother's glance?
In the corpse's countenance?
In men's real thoughts and ways?
Time's long track, or passing days?
In the cipher of the whole?
In the core of my own soul?
Nay!—I have sincerely sought,
But no glimpse of this thing caught.
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