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Thus souls by nature pitched too high,

By sufferings plunged too low,

Meet in the church's middle sky,

Halfway 'twixt joy and woe;

To practise there the soothing lay,

That sorrow best relieves,

Thankful for all God takes away,

Humbled by all He gives.

-CHRISTIAN YEAR

One Afternoon, late in April, Charles opened the dressi