Light in Darkness
Oh! for the faintest glimmering of hope,
To gild the pinions of Uncertainty
Wherewith I mount to heaven's topmost cope,
To learn th' Eternal Will regarding thee!
No light! no light! a double darkness dread
Englooms my spiritual sense, as when
The midnight wraps her mantle-o'er her head,
Shrouding her glories from the gaze of men.
Faith meets me midway up the starry slope,
And lo! the intense Darkness disappears,
And Charity comes smiling down the spheres
On whitest wing to meet us; and my ears
Drink in the heavenly words: " Give Reason scope,
Upheld by Faith, behold! how vast the Hope! "
To gild the pinions of Uncertainty
Wherewith I mount to heaven's topmost cope,
To learn th' Eternal Will regarding thee!
No light! no light! a double darkness dread
Englooms my spiritual sense, as when
The midnight wraps her mantle-o'er her head,
Shrouding her glories from the gaze of men.
Faith meets me midway up the starry slope,
And lo! the intense Darkness disappears,
And Charity comes smiling down the spheres
On whitest wing to meet us; and my ears
Drink in the heavenly words: " Give Reason scope,
Upheld by Faith, behold! how vast the Hope! "
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