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OCTAVES: 6 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

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First Line: WHILE WE ARE DRILLED IN ERROR, WE ARE LOST
Last Line: IN EVERLASTING RUNES THE TRUTH OF HIM.
When we shall hear no more the cradle-songs
Of ages -- when the timeless hymns of Love
Defeat them and outsound them -- we shall know
The rapture of that large release which all
Right science comprehends; and we shall read,
With unoppressed and unoffended eyes,
That record of All-Soul whereon God writes
In everlasting runes the truth of Him.




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