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Haste to clinib tlie purple mountains , Sweetly touched by lips of light :
Haste to drink the welling fountains , Springs of knowledge , heavenly bright .
Shrink not , though the path be dreary , Quail not , though it swarm with foes ,
Faint not , though thy heart be weary , Labour must beget repose . Semblances of truth may haunt thee ,
Shapes of foul things , seeming fair : Phantom forms of night may daunt thee ,
Spectral on % pring of despair . Death may meet thee—thou art
_mortaliNot for this , feel thou dismay ; Death is but of life the portal ,
_iNight is but the birth of day . Iiife and Death , at last agreeing ,
In eternity unite , And the brightening grades of Being
Culminate in central light . In the star-crowned front of heaven
Three imperial jewels shine ; Lamps for human guidance given ,
Kindled by a hand divine . Faith , with name that cannot falter
, [ Rises high and ever higher , Lake a live coal from God ' s altar ,
Orbed in unextinguished fire . Prophet-star , like Phosphor rising ,
Hope consoles the aching sight , Every thought and wish baptizing , Font of consecrated light .
Love , the third—beams soft and tender , Soft as cherub ' s smile can be ;
Xet has it seraphic splendour , Brightest of the mystic three .
Ages long , that radiant cluster Has beheld the fateful strife :
Still it sheds its holy lustre On the chequered field of life . Watch it , as some old Chaldean
"Watched through night the starry sky : In the spirit ' s empyrean