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Even as upon a low and cloud-domed day, / When clouds are one cloud till the horizon, / Our thinking senses deem the sun away / And say «'tis sunless» and «there is no sun»; / And yet the very day they wrong truth by / Is of the unseen sun's effluent essence, / The very words do give themselves the lie, / The very thought of absence comes from presence: / Even so deem we through Good of what is evil.
He speaks of light that speaks of absent light, / And absent god, becoming present devil, / Is still the absent god by essence' right. / The withdrawn cause by being withdrawn doth get / (Being thereby cause still) the denied effect.