And hope the high song taught him: hope whose eyes

Can sound the seas unsoundable, the skies

Inaccessible of eyesight; that can see

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What earth beholds not, hear what wind and sea

Hear not, and speak what all these crying in one

Can speak not to the sun.

For in her sovereign eyelight all things are

Clear as the closest seen and kindlier star

That marries morn and even and winter and spring

With one love's golden ring.

For she can see the days of man, the birth

Of good and death of evil things on earth

Inevitable and infinite, and sure

As present pain is, or herself is pure.

Yea, she can hear and see, beyond all things

That lighten from before Time's thunderous wings

Through the awful circle of wheel-winged periods,

The tempest of the twilight of all Gods:

And higher than all the circling course they ran

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