And thou canst make that desert mind

Bloom sweetly as the blushing rose;

Thou canst illume that rayless void

Till darkness like the day-gleam glows.

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Thus shalt thou shed a purer ray

O’er each beclouded mind within,

Than pours the glorious orb of day

On this dark world of care and sin.

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