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The Nameless

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Unnumbered gods may unremembered die;     A thousand creeds may perish and pass by;     Yet do I lift mine eyes to ONE on high.     Unnamed be HE from whom creation came;     There is no word whereby to speak His name     But petty men have mouthed it into shame.     I lift mine eyes, and with a river's force     My love's full tide goes sweeping on its course     To that supreme and all-embracing Source.     Then back through all those thirsting channels roll     The mighty billows of the Over Soul.     And I am He, the portion and the Whole.     As little streams before the flood-tide flee,     As rivers vanish to become the sea,     The I exists no more, for I AM HE,

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