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BIRTHDAY ODE.
From dream to dream, from darkness into shade,380
From sunshine into sunlight, moves and lives
The steersman's eye, the helming hand that gives
Life to the wheels and wings that whirl along
The immeasurable impulse of the sphere of song
Through all the eternal years,
Beyond all stars and spheres,
Beyond the washing of the waves of time,
Beyond all heights where no thought else may climb,
Beyond the darkling dust of suns that were,
Past height and depth of air;390
And in the abyss whence all things move that are
Finds only living Love, the sovereign star.
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Found even of love on earth
To wash all stain of tears and sins away,
