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He stands above all worldly schism, / And, gazing over life's abysm, / Beholds within the starry range / Of heaven laws of death and change, / That, through his soul's prophetic prism, / Are turned to rainbows wild and strange.
Through nature is his hope made surer / Of that ideal, his allurer, / By whom his life is upward drawn / To mount pale pinnacles of dawn, / 'Mid which all that is fairer, purer / Of love and lore it comes upon.