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A black veil has been lifted; we have seen The mighty shadow of the omniscient Lord; But who has lifted up the veil of light And who has seen the body of the King?

At last the traveller in the paths of Time Arrives on the frontiers of eternity.

A topless Supernature fills his frame: She adopts his spirit's everlasting ground As the security of her changing world And shapes the figure of her unborn mights.

A WORLD'S desire compelled her mortal birth.

Affiliated to cosmic Space and Time And paying here God's debt to earth and man A greater sonship was his divine right.

A force in her that toiled since earth was made, Accomplishing in life the great world-plan, Pursuing after death immortal aims

But not to submit and suffer was she born; To lead, to deliver was her glorious part.

At once she was the stillness and the word, A continent of self-diffusing peace, An ocean of untrembling virgin fire; The strength, the silence of the gods were hers.

Immortal rhythms swayed in her time-born steps; Her look, her smile awoke celestial sense Even in earth-stuff, and their intense delight Poured a supernal beauty on men's lives.