The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Chapter 40 No.40

Long in its dim recesses pines the spirit,

Wildered and dark, despairingly alone;

Though many a shape of beauty wander near it,

And many a wild and half-remembered tone

Tremble from the divine abyss to cheer it,

Yet still it knows that there is only one

Before whom it can kneel and tribute bring.

At once a happy vassal and a ki

            
            

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