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He practises all virtue well,
Who his own Cross reveres,
And lives in the familiar thought
Of the Eternal Years.
NOTES:
[[1]] From Merlin's song in Tennyson's "Coming of Arthur."
[[2]] Coventry Patmore's "Ode to the Body."
[[3]] From the Psalm, "De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine."—"Out of the depths have I cried to Thee, O Lord."
[[4]] "Come to his assistance, ye saints of God; come forth to meet him, ye angels of the Lord: Receiving his soul: Offering it in the sight of the Most High."