O human soul! as long as thou canst so

Set up a mark of everlasting light

Above the howling senses' ebb and flow

To cheer thee, and to right thee if thou roam—

Not with lost toil thou laborest thro' the night!

Thou mak'st the heaven thou hop'st indeed thy home.

—Matthew Arnold.

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PRECIOUSNESS OF CHRIST

Jesus, the very thought of thee