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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: To witness, victory is the Lord's Hear the wail o' the spirits hear. Zerah. I hear aloue the memory of His words. THE EPILOGUE. My song is done My voice that long hath faltered shall be still. The mystic darkness drops from Calvary's bill, Into the common light of this day's sun. I see no more Thy cross, O holy Slain I hear no more the horror and the coil Of the great world's turmoil, Feeling thy countenance too still, nor yell Of demons sweeping past it to their prison. The skies, that turned to darkness with Thy pain, Make now a summer's day, And on my changed ear, that sabbath bell Records how Christ is Risen. And I ah what am I To counterfeit with faculty earth-darkened Seraphic brows of light, And seraph language never used nor hearkened ? Ah me what word that Seraphs say, could come From mouth so used to sighs so soon to lie Sighless, hecause then breathless, in the tomb ? Bright ministers of God and grace of grace Because of God whether ye bow adown, In your own heaven, before the living face Of Him who died, and deathless wears the crown Or whether at this hour, ye haply are Anear, around me, hiding in the night Of this permitted ignorance, your light, This feebleness to spare, Forgive me, that mine earthly heart should dare Shape images of unincarnate spirits, And lay upon their burning lips a thought Damp with the weeping which mine earth inherits; And while ye find in such hoarse music, wrought To copy yours, a cadence all the while Of sin and sorrow only pitying smile Ye know to pity, well. I too may haply smile another day, At the far recollection of this lay, When God may call me in your midst to dwell, To hear your most sweet music's miracle, And see your wondrous fa...
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