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I / A spirit passed before me: I beheld / The face of Immortality unveiled- / Deep Sleep came down on every eye save mine- / And there it stood,-all formless-but divine: / Along my bones the creeping flesh did quake; / And as my damp hair stiffened, thus it spake:
II / "Is man more just than God? Is man more pure / Than he who deems even Seraphs insecure? / Creatures of clay-vain dwellers in the dust! / The moth survives you, and are ye more just? / Things of a day! you wither ere the night, / Heedless and blind to Wisdom's wasted light! "