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(at a Cathedral Service)\n\nThat from this bright believing band\nAn outcast I should be,\nThat faiths by which my comrades stand\nSeem fantasies to me,\nAnd mirage-mists their Shining Land,\nIs a drear destiny.\n\nWhy thus my soul should be consigned\nTo infelicity,\nWhy always I must feel as blind\nTo sights my brethren see,\nWhy joys they've found I cannot find,\nAbides[footnote]Remains.[\/footnote]\u00a0a mystery.\n\nSince heart of mine knows not that ease\nWhich they know; since it be\nThat He who breathes All's Well to these\nBreathes no All's Well to me,\nMy lack might move their sympathies\nAnd Christian charity!\n\nI am like a gazer who should mark\nAn inland company\nStanding upfingered, with, \"Hark! hark!\nThe glorious distant sea!\"\nAnd feel, \"Alas, 'tis but yon dark\nAnd wind-swept pine to me!\"\n\nYet I would bear my shortcomings\nWith meet tranquillity,\nBut for the charge that blessed things\nI'd liefer[footnote]Rather.[\/footnote]\u00a0have unbe.\n\nO, doth a bird deprived of wings\nGo earth-bound wilfully!\n. . . .\nEnough. As yet disquiet clings\nAbout us. Rest shall we.\n\n\u2014 1898<\/p>","rendered":"

(at a Cathedral Service)<\/p>\n

That from this bright believing band
\nAn outcast I should be,
\nThat faiths by which my comrades stand
\nSeem fantasies to me,
\nAnd mirage-mists their Shining Land,
\nIs a drear destiny.<\/p>\n

Why thus my soul should be consigned
\nTo infelicity,
\nWhy always I must feel as blind
\nTo sights my brethren see,
\nWhy joys they’ve found I cannot find,
\nAbides[1]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0a mystery.<\/p>\n

Since heart of mine knows not that ease
\nWhich they know; since it be
\nThat He who breathes All’s Well to these
\nBreathes no All’s Well to me,
\nMy lack might move their sympathies
\nAnd Christian charity!<\/p>\n

I am like a gazer who should mark
\nAn inland company
\nStanding upfingered, with, “Hark! hark!
\nThe glorious distant sea!”
\nAnd feel, “Alas, ’tis but yon dark
\nAnd wind-swept pine to me!”<\/p>\n

Yet I would bear my shortcomings
\nWith meet tranquillity,
\nBut for the charge that blessed things
\nI’d liefer[2]<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0have unbe.<\/p>\n

O, doth a bird deprived of wings
\nGo earth-bound wilfully!
\n. . . .
\nEnough. As yet disquiet clings
\nAbout us. Rest shall we.<\/p>\n

\u2014 1898<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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