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“Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.”

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Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

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Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

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