Now sets the youth out for joy, the city of joy,
Whose walls illuminated with all–hued spheres
Beacon the immense of life. He, ‘neath the care
Of his kindly enemy, begins his course;
Each aiding other; all beside abused.
Heaven, hell, life pre–existent, things not yet,
Things passed, immemorable, foreshadowy, show
Briefwise before the all–questful spirit, intent
To prove its dominance o’er the world, till taught
Earth, air, nor fire, nor all the elements fused
Into one subtlest essence, aught avail
The soul to assist or to divert, once charged
God’s mighty but mysterious ends to achieve;
Ends more substantial than all solidest things.
A Mountain. Sunrise.
Festus and Lucifer.
Festus. Morn on the mountains! Mark her lifening glow,
Light’s bless
(Philip James Bailey)
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