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Show MAN. VOR THE HCr.ALl'. Tlie Imnifin mind, that lofty thing, The palace and the throve, "Where reajon sits a scap'.ered king, And breaibes its jiidgruont tone; Yet who with siVnt steps can trace Tha borderi of that haunt-d plad, Xor in his weakness own That mvitorr and marvel hind Thai lofiy thing tee human mino The human heart, that re-es thing Thclempted and tiip triod Tho joyous and the sutiering The source of pain and pride The scat of love the lair of hate Sflf-ftuug and self-denied; And yet ire hail thee as thou art Tha restless thing TUE human ueai.t. Tho human soul, that startling thing Mysterious and Eublime, The angel sleeping on the wing, AYora by the scon' of time. Tho beautiful, tbe veiled, tho bound, Tha earth enthroned, the glory crowned, The smitten in its prime, Prom heaven in tenrs, to earth it stole That startling thing the uvmaS soul. |