Sonnet
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hen we can all so excellently giveThe measure of love's wisdom with a blow, --Why can we not in turn receive it so,And end this murmur for the life we live?And when we do so frantically striveTo win strange faith, why do we shun to knowThat in love's elemental over-glowGod's wholeness gleams with light superlative? Oh, brother men, if you have eyes at all,Look at a branch, a bird, a child, a rose, --Or anything God ever made that grows, --Nor let the smallest vision of it slip,Till you can read, as on Belshazzar's wall,The glory of eternal partnership!
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