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Envoi

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Beloved, when my heart's awake to God         And all the world becomes His testimony,         In you I most do see, in your brave spirit,         Erect and certain, flashing deeds of light,         A pure jet from the fountain of all being,         A scripture clearer than all else to read.         And when belief was dead and God a myth,         And the world seemed a wandering mote of evil,         Endurable only by its impermanence,         And all the planets perishable urns         Of perished ashes, to you alone I clung         Amid the unspeakable loneliness of the universe.

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