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Thou emblem of the voiceless gloom That shrouds our last repose, And of that all-pervading hope That midst its darkness glows; Thou slumberest as it were in death, And yet a mighty change Within thee works its silent way In transformations strange.
Who taught thee as thou slowly crept Upon thy earthly way To hasten to a higher state And calmly wait the day On which the secret voice of God Would bid thee first to fly Aloft into those paths of air Beneath His own blue sky.