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II.

All childhood, reverence clothed thee, undefined,

As for some being of another race; Ah! not with it departing--grown apace

As years have brought me manhood's loftier mind Able to see thy human life behind--

The same hid heart, the same revealing face-- My own dim contest settling into grace

Of sorrow, strife, and victory combined.

  So I beheld my God, in childhood's morn, A mist, a darkness, great, and far apart, Moveless and dim--I scarce could say Thou art:

My manhood came, of joy and sadness born-- Full soon the misty dark, asunder torn,

Revealed man's glory, God's great human heart.

G.M.D. Jr.

Algiers, April, 1857.



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