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The Great World's Altar-stairs, That Slope Through Darkness Up To God.
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The great world's altar-stairs,
That slope through darkness up to God.
-- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
-- In Memoriam, lv, Stanza 4
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So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life.
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Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.
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Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought.
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Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
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And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.
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Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand!
Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be!...
Hold thou the good; define it well; For fear divine Philosophy Should push beyond her mark, and be Procuress to the Lords of Hell.
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One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.
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Some novel power Sprang up forever at a touch, And hope could never hope too much In watching thee from hour to hour.
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