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Sonnet. About Jesus. VIII.

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Thou wouldst have led us through the twilight land     Where spirit shows by form, form is refined     Away to spirit by transfiguring mind,     Till they are one, and in the morn we stand;     Treading thy footsteps, children, hand in hand,     With sense divinely growing, till, combined,     We heard the music of the planets wind     In harmony with billows on the strand;     Till, one with Earth and all God's utterance,     We hardly knew whether the sun outspake,     Or a glad sunshine from our spirits brake;     Whether we think, or windy leaflets dance:     Alas, O Poet Leader! for this good,     Thou wert God's tragedy, writ in tears and blood.

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