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Eye hath not seen nor ear hath heard And fled I had, but guilt is loadNor heart conceived that full

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Not long how long? Oh long reechoing song!

O Lord, how long?

Before 1893.

Behold, it was very good.

ALL things are fair, if we had eyes

to see

How first God made them goodly

everywhere:

And goodly still in Paradise they be,-

All things are fair.

O Lord, the solemn heavens Thy

praise declare; The multi-fashioned saints bring praise to Thee,

As doves fly home and cast away

their care.

As doves on divers branches of their tree,

Perched high or low, sit all contented there,

Not mourning any more; in each degree

All things are fair. Before 1893.

Whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. WHEN all the overwork of life

Is finished once, and fallen asleep We shrink no more beneath the knife,

But having sown prepare to reap; Delivered from the crossway rough,

Delivered from the thorny scourge,
Delivered from the tossing surge,

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Then shall we find—(please God!) Up and away,' call the Angels t

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'Where that which riseth sets again No foambow any more may crest

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Where harvest justifies labour of Peace, peace, thou sea! God's wis

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Night for the dead in their stiffness and starkness!

Day for the living who mount in their might

Old earth shall end, new earth Out of their graves to the beautiful

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