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Up soared the lark into the air, / A shaft of song, a winged prayer, / As if a soul, released from pain, / Were flying back to heaven again.
St. Francis heard; it was to him / An emblem of the Seraphim; / The upward motion of the fire, / The light, the heat, the heart's desire.