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ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

THE selections from Whittier, Longfellow, and Lowell, in this book, are taken by permission of, and by special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., publishers of their works.

THE VISION OF CHRIST IN THE

POETS.

18

Let visions of the night or of the day

Come as they will; and many a time they come,
Until this earth he walks on seems not earth,
This light that strikes his eyeball is not light,
This air that strikes his forehead is not air,
But vision-yea, his very hand and foot-
In moments when he feels he can not die,
And knows himself no vision to himself,
Nor the high God a vision, nor that One
Who rose again.

-The Holy Grail.

THE NEW YORK
PLIC LIBRARY

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