What shall I say? for God—whose wise decree

Confirmeth all He did by all He doth—

Doubled His whole creation making thee.

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I would be a bird, and straight on wings I arise,

And carry purpose up to the ends of the air:

In calm and storm my sails I feather, and where

By freezing cliffs the unransom’d wreckage lies:

Or, strutting on hot meridian banks, surprise

The silence: over plains in the moonlight bare