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THE HIGHER PANTHEISM.

THE sun, the moon, the stars, the seas, the hills and

the plains

Are not these, O Soul, the Vision of Him who reigns?

Is not the Vision He tho' He be not that which He

seems?

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in

dreams?

Earth, these solid stars, this weight of body and limb,

Are they not sign and symbol of thy division from Him?

Dark is the world to thee : thyself art the reason

why;

For is He not all but thou, that hast power to feel

'I am I?'

Glory about thee, without thee; and thou fulfillest

thy doom,

Making Him broken gleams, and a stifled splendour

and gloom.

Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with

Spirit can meet

Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hånds

and feet.

God is law, say the wise; O Soul, and let us rejoice,

For if Ho thunder by law the thunder is yet His

voice.

Law is God, say some: no God at all, says the fool; For all we have power to see is a straight staff bent in a pool;

And the ear of man cannot hear, and the eye of man

cannot see;

But if we could see and hear, this Vision-were it not

He ?

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FLOWER in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies ;-
Hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
Little flower-but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

The King was shaken with holy fear;

'The Gods,' he said, 'would have chosen well;

Yet both are near, and both are dear,

And which the dearest I cannot tell!'

But the Priest was happy,

His victim won :

'We have his dearest,

His only son!'

VI.

The rites prepared, the victim bared,

The knife uprising toward the blow,

To the altar-stone she sprang alone,

'Mc, not my darling, no!'

He caught her away with a sudden cry ;
Suddenly from him brake his wife,

And shrieking 'I am his dearest, I

I am his dearest !' rush'd on the knife.

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