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Reverence Waking Hope

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A power is on me, and my soul must speak     To thee, thou grey, grey man, whom I behold     With those white-headed children. I am bold     To commune with thy setting, and to wreak     My doubts on thy grey hair; for I would seek     Thee in that other world, but I am told     Thou goest elsewhere and wilt never hold     Thy head so high as now. Oh I were weak,     Weak even to despair, could I forego     The tender vision which will give somehow     Thee standing brightly one day even as now!     Thou art a very grey old man, and so     I may not pass thee darkly, but bestow     A look of reverence on thy wrinkled brow.

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