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Invocation.

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[V, vi., August, 1832.]     Say, Lord! for Thou alone canst tell     Where lurks the good invisible     Amid the depths of discord's sea -     That seem, alas! so dark to me!     Oppressive to a mighty state,     Contentions, feuds, the people's hate -     But who dare question that which fate     Has ordered to have been?     Haply the earthquake may unfold     The resting-place of purest gold,     And haply surges up have rolled     The pearls that were unseen!     G.W.M. REYNOLDS.

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