New Poems by Francis Thompson
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The world above in the world below
(And a million worlds are but as one), And the One in all; as the sun's strength so Strives in all strength, glows in all glow Of the earth that wits not, and man thereon. Braced in its own fourfold embrace (And a million strengths are as strength of one), And round it all God's arms of grace, The world, so as the Vision says, Doth with great lightning-tramples run. And thunder bruiteth into thunder, (And a million sounds are as sound of one), From stellate peak to peak is tossed a voice of wonder, And the height stoops down to the depths thereunder, And sun leans forth to his brother-sun. And the more ample years unfold (With a million songs as song of one), A little new of the ever old, A little told of the never told, Added act of the never done. Loud the descant, and low the theme, (A million songs are as song of one); And the dream of the world is dream in dream, But the one Is is, or nought could seem; And the song runs round to the song begun. |
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