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Through Foulest Fogs

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Through foulest fogs of my own sluggish soul,     Through midnight glooms of all the wide world's guilt,     Through sulphurous cannon-clouds that surge and roll     Above the steam of blood in anger spilt;     Through all the sombre earth-oppressing piles     Of old cathedral temples which expand     Sepulchral vaults and monumental aisles,     Hopeless and freezing in the lifeful land;     I gaze and seek with ever-longing eyes     For God, the Love-Supreme, all-wise, all-good:     Alas! in vain; for over all the skies     A dark and awful shadow seems to brood,     A numbing, infinite, eternal gloom:     I tremble in the consciousness of Doom.

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