For he who loveth knoweth God.
—Dinah Maria Mulock Craik.
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VIA CRUCIS, VIA LUCIS
Through night to light! And though to mortal eyes
Creation's face a pall of horror wear,
Good cheer! good cheer! the gloom of midnight flies;
Then shall a sunrise follow, mild and fair.
Through storm to calm! And though his thunder car
The rumbling tempest drive through earth and sky,