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As the tides that return and recede are the fears and
the hopes of the centuries that roll,
Requenched and rekindled: but strong as the sun is the
sense of it shrined in the soul.

II

In the days when time was not, in the time when days

were none,
Ere sorrow had life to lot, ere earth gave thanks for the
sun,
Ere man in his darkness waking adored what the soul
in him could,
And the manifold God of his making was manifest evil
and good,
One law from the dim beginning abode and abides in
the end,
In sight of him sorrowing and sinning with none but his
faith for friend.