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FRIAR PACIFICUS. / It is growing dark! Yet one line more, / And then my work for to-day is o'er. / I come again to the name of the Lord! / Ere I that awful name record, / That is spoken so lightly among men, / Let me pause awhile and wash my pen; / Pure from blemish and blot must it be / When it writes that word of mystery!