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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.