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⁠Alas! as well the parent shape
Might hope its shadow to escape
Whose dull, untiring mockery,
Still haunts it wheresoe'er it fly.
⁠Yet, if revealed in one wide glow
Light's glories from the heavens might flow
That shade, o'erwhelmed in the bright maze.
Would vanish from our baffled gaze.
⁠E'en thus it soothes the soul to think
That, when disrobed of earthly stain.
⁠And clay to kindred clay shall shrink,
The immortal spirit shall remain,
⁠A pure and perfect emanation
Of the great source from whence it came,
⁠Soaring in heavenly aspiration,
⁠As a lambent flame,
To mingle with the quoir above
Who chant unending hymns of love;—
⁠That there the soul may float in bliss,
Drinking in at every pore
⁠Tides of celestial mysteries
Which fooled its keenest search before;
Filled with a joy for utterance too deep
And holy love which doth its being steep;