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I MET a man when night was nigh, / Who said, with shining face and eye / Like Moses' after Sinai: -

"I have seen the Moulder of Monarchies, / Realms, peoples, plains and hills, / Sitting upon the sunlit seas! - / And, as He sat, soliloquies / Fell from Him like an antiphonic breeze / That pricks the waves to thrills.

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