But Heaven on Heaven, that we may ceaseless soar?

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HUMILITY

Was not humility the Earthward stair

From highest Heaven, by which God came to men,

To show the way aloft to human ken?

Ah, by what other pass, are men to fare

Through mist and cloud, except the path, aflare

With his blest steps from Heaven, and up again?

Steps, not from star to star, but fen to fen,