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 By joyful hope they soon are swept away,
-And light divine doth guide me all the day.
+\\ And light divine doth guide me all the day.
-As weary watchers look to see the day,
+\\ As weary watchers look to see the day,
-And herald gladly each faint, glimmering ray,
+\\ And herald gladly each faint, glimmering ray,
-My eyes are turned to Thee, O Lord of Light,
+\\ My eyes are turned to Thee, O Lord of Light,
-From out the deep abyss of darkest night.
+\\ From out the deep abyss of darkest night.
 In weakness and unrest, Thine own strong arm
-Doth stretch to help, and banish all alarm.
+\\ Doth stretch to help, and banish all alarm.
-From Thy calm lips the sweet words come to me:
+\\ From Thy calm lips the sweet words come to me:
-“My grace, dear child, sufficient is for thee.”
+\\ “My grace, dear child, sufficient is for thee.”
 O Thou, firm executor of the Power Divine,
-Inspirer of all beauty—Thou art mine.
+\\ Inspirer of all beauty—Thou art mine.
-Help me to realize the LIFE COMPLETE.
+\\ Help me to realize the LIFE COMPLETE.
-Fill me, dear Lord, with Thine own spirit sweet.
+\\ Fill me, dear Lord, with Thine own spirit sweet.
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-=== TRUTH IS WITHIN OURSELVES ===
+<WRAP centeralign>
-TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward
+==== TRUTH IS WITHIN OURSELVES ====
-things. There is an inmost center in us all, where Truth
+</WRAP>
-abides in fulness; and around, wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems
-it in.
-This perfect, clear perception, which is Truth, a baffling and
+<WRAP justify>
-perverting carnal mesh binds and makes all error; and to know
+TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things. There is an inmost center in us all, where Truth abides in fulness; and around, wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in.
-consists rather in opening out a way whence the imprisoned
-splendor may escape, than in effecting entry for a light supposed
-to be without.
-Watch narrowly the demonstration of a Truth, its birth, and
+This perfect, clear perception, which is Truth, a baffling and perverting carnal mesh binds and makes all error; and to know consists rather in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, than in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.
-you trace back the effluence to its spring and source within us,
-where broods radiance vast.
-—From Browning’s Paracelsus.
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+Watch narrowly the demonstration of a Truth, its birth, and you trace back the effluence to its spring and source within us, where broods radiance vast. —From Browning’s Paracelsus.
-HAST thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind
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-and heart of all mankind? For as the Sacred River’s roaring
-voice whereby all nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the
-heart of him “who in the stream would enter thrill in response to
-every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.”
-—The Voice of the Silence.
+HAST thou attuned thy heart and mind to the great mind and heart of all mankind? For as the Sacred River’s roaring voice whereby all nature-sounds are echoed back, so must the heart of him “who in the stream would enter thrill in response to every sigh and thought of all that lives and breathes.” —The Voice of the Silence.
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