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earth's mystery

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LYRICS OF LIFE

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EARTH'S MYSTERY

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I looked on Sorrow, tragical and dread;

Beheld the anguish in her sunken eyes,

Which yearned no longer upward to the skies—

As dumbly pleading to be comforted—

But bent their blinded vision on the dead:

The dead removed—how far!—from human sighs,

Lying majestic, as a conqueror lies,

Indifferent to tears, so costly shed.

But as I pondered, seeking, soul-oppressed,

To read the riddle of a world like this—

Where Nature still seems waiting to destroy,

I saw immortal Love descend and kiss,

With timid wonder, reverent and blest,

The quivering eyelids and the lips of Joy!