CXXXI.

"O living will"--_free will in man_--that will outlast all present things,

surviving and enduring

"When all that seems shall suffer shock,

Rise in the spiritual rock,"

which is Christ, the source of all life and strength; and flowing through

our deeds, "make them pure;" so that out of the dust of death, we may cry

to One that hears, and has conquered time, and with us works; and we may

put our whole trust in those "truths that never can be proved until we

close with all we loved," and with God Himself, who will be "all in

all"--not by the souls of mankind becoming absorbed into the "general

Soul"--a notion which Poem xlvii. repudiates--but by the Divine nature

being infused into and prevailing in all.

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