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Sign up for free Log in. Nay, if compassionate thou art, why, thou lover of men, Hidest thou thy face so pitilessly from us? Now casteth he away his books and logical idols, Leaveth again his cell of terrified penitence ; And that stony goddess, his first-born fancy, dethroning, Hath made after his own homelier art another ; Made sweet Hope, the modest unportiond daughter of anguish, Whose brimming eye sees but dimly what it looketh on; Dreaming a day when fully, without curse or horrible cross, Thou wilt deign to reveal her vision of happiness.
