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what is this i read in history full of marvel full of mystery difficult to understand
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never since the world was made such a wonderful crusade started forth for palestine
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singing lowly meekly slowly give us give us back the holy sepulchre of the redeemer
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life and death and love and hate homes made happy or desolate hearts made sad or gay
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like a red seal is the setting sun on the good and the evil men have done naught can to-day restore
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through my closed eyelids by the inner sight i see the constellations in the arc of their great circles moving on and hark
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not in tenderness wanting yet rough are the rhymes of our poet though it be jacob's voice esau's alas are the hands
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how can the three be one you ask me i answer by asking hail and snow and rain are they not three and yet one
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and the sea said lo i breathe but my breath to some will be life to others death
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who has searched or sought all the unexplored and spacious universe of thought
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how thy name sublime has descended to this latest progeny of time
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this is our consolation and again a great soul cries to us in our suspense i came from martyrdom unto this peace
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traveller why dost thou wildly rush and roar mad river o mad river
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wilt thou not pause and cease to pour thy hurrying headlong waters o'er this rocky shelf forever
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dost thou not know that what is best in this too restless world is rest from over-work and worry
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the river what wouldst thou in these mountains seek o stranger from the city
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is it perhaps some foolish freak of thine to put the words i speak into a plaintive ditty
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thou seest the day is past its prime i can no longer waste my time the mills are tired of waiting
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the thoughts of men shall be as sentinels to keep your rest from danger free
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awake arise the hour is late
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o traveller stay thy weary feet drink of this fountain pure and sweet it flows for rich and poor the same
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then go thy way remembering still the wayside well beneath the hill the cup of water in his name
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what say the bells of san blas to the ships that southward pass from the harbor of mazatlan
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to them it is nothing more than the sound of surf on the shore nothing more to master or man
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the saints ah have they grown forgetful of their own
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o bells of san blas in vain ye call back the past again the past is deaf to your prayer
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out of the shadows of night the world rolls into light it is daybreak everywhere
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why dost thou bear me aloft o angel of god on thy pinions o'er realms and dominions
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softly i float as a cloud in air for thy right hand upholds me thy garment enfolds me
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sweetest divinest of all was the humble deed of thine and the meekness of thy demeanor
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angel of light i cannot gainsay thee i can but obey thee
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but why should the reapers eat of it and not the prophet of zion in the den of the lion
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alas how full of fear is the fate of prophet and seer
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let us descend into the city splendid into the city of gold
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as we draw near what sound is it i hear ascending through the dark
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repent repent repent
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o priest and pharisee who hath warned you to flee from the wrath that is to be
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't is written man shall not live by bread alone but by each word that from god's mouth proceedeth
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ah could i by some sudden aberration lend and delude to suicidal death this christ of nazareth
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lo i have brought thee let thy glory here be manifest and clear
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but one temptation still remains untried the trial of his pride the thirst of power the fever of ambition
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get thee behind me satan thou shalt worship the lord thy god him only shalt thou serve
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the nazarene who preacheth to the poor in field and village the coming of god's kingdom
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how serene his aspect is manly yet womanly
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and tell me she with eyes of olive tint and skin as fair as wheat and pale brown hair the woman at his side
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that is manahem the essenian he who dwells among the palms near the dead sea
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o woman what have i to do with thee mine hour is not yet come
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all men set forth good wine at the beginning and when men have well drunk that which is worse but thou hast kept the good wine until now
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hereafter thou shalt see the heavens unclosed the angels of god ascending and descending upon the son of man
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behold how thy disciples do a thing which is not lawful on the sabbath-day and thou forbiddest them not
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he hath been with the master tell us philip what tidings dost thou bring
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as natural brute beasts they growl at things they do not understand and they shall perish utterly perish in their own corruption
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wells are they without water clouds carried with a tempest unto whom the mist of darkness is reserved forever
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behold he cometh there is one man with him i am amazed to see
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i feel that it might say unto the blind receive your sight and straightway they would see
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i feel that it might say unto the dead arise and they would hear it and obey
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what have i to do with thee thou son of god do not torment us
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go home unto thy friends and tell them how great things the lord hath done for thee and how he had compassion on thee
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the herds the herd o most unlucky day
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thus righteously are punished the apostate jews that eat the flesh of swine and broth of such abominable things
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we sacrifice a sow unto demeter at the beginning of harvest and another to dionysus at the vintage-time
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let us depart for they that sanctify and purify themselves in gardens eating flesh of swine
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o master i entreat thee i implore thee
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my daughter lieth at the point of death i pray thee come and lay thy hands upon her and she shall live
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thou seest the multitude that throng and press thee and sayest thou: who touched me 't was not i
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see she obeys his voice she stirs she lives
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and pass and disappear and are no more but leave behind their merchandise and jewels their perfumes and their gold and their disgust
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i loathe them and the very memory of them is unto me as thought of food to one cloyed with the luscious figs of dalmanutha
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i look upon this raiment that i wear these silks and these embroideries and they seem only as cerements wrapped about my limbs
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i look upon these rings thick set with pearls and emerald and amethyst and jasper and they are burning coals upon my flesh
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but from that very hour the seven demons that had their habitation in this body which men call beautiful departed from me
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as of a drowning man and then the voice why didst thou doubt o thou of little faith
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whereunto shall i liken then the men of this generation and what are they like
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see how she kneels there weeping and her tears fall on his feet and her long golden hair waves to and fro and wipes them dry again
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a certain creditor had once two debtors and the one of them owed him five hundred pence the other fifty
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yea for i said to thee it shall be well with thee if thou love justice and clemency towards thy fellow-men
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and then foreseeing all thy life i added but these thou wilt forget and at the end of life the lord will punish thee
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thou shalt reign twenty nay thirty years i cannot name the end
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this is my birthday and a happier one was never mine we hold a banquet here
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that they may be inhabitants of earth and lead man to destruction such are these
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not that dear child i dare not for the people regard john as a prophet
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good manahem give me thy hand i love the essenians
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he's gone and hears me not the guests are dumb awaiting the pale face the silent witness
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sink back into the earth or vanish into the air thou castle of despair
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let it all be but a dream of the things of monstrous birth of the things that only seem
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the lamps are all extinguished only one burns steadily and from the door its light lies like a shining gate across the street
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verily verily i say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot behold the kingdom of god
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verily i say unto thee except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of god
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we israelites from the primeval man adam ahelion derive our bodies our souls are breathings of the holy ghost
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it is not this the jews are waiting for nor can this be the christ the son of david who shall deliver us
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and no man hath ascended up to heaven but he alone that first came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven
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this is the condemnation that the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil
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of me he speaketh he reproveth me because i come by night to question him
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for every one that doeth evil deeds hateth the light nor cometh to the light lest he should be reproved
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but he that doeth truth comes to the light so that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in god
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a young man clad in white is coming through the gateway and a crowd of people follow
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chilion good neighbors lead me on
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good lord my sight that i receive my sight
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how beautiful thou art i should have known thee thou hast her eyes whom we shall see hereafter
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o god of abraham elion adonai
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