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Of what in other worlds shall be—and given

In beauty by our God, to those alone

Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven,

Drawn by their heart’s passion, and that tone,

That high tone of the spirit, which hath striven

Though not with Faith—with godliness—whose throne

With desperate energy ’t hath beaten down;

Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.

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