Chapter 23 THE SAME CONCLUDED

Far 'yond this narrow parapet of Time,

With eyes uplift, the poet's soul should look

Into the Endless Promise, nor should brook

One prying doubt to shake his faith sublime;

To him the earth is ever in her prime

And dewiness of morning; he can see

Good lying hid, from all eternity,

Within the teeming womb of sin and crime;

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