(Isa. 12:2; Rom. 8:32.)

"Hath not each heart a passion and a dream?
Each some companionship for ever sweet?
And each in saddest skies some silver gleam,
And each some passing joy, too fair and fleet?
And each a staff and stay, though frail it prove,
And each a Face he fain would ever see?
And what have I? An endless heaven of love,
A rapture, and a glory, and a calm,
A life that is an everlasting psalm-<
All, O Beloved, in Thee."

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