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   While, renewed by new evangels,
    Soul-consummated, made glorious,
   Ye shall brighten past the angels—
    Ye shall kneel to Christ victorious;
And the rays around His feet, beneath your sobbing lips, shall tremble.
  [The phantastic vision has all passed; the earth-zodiac has
    broken like a belt, and dissolved from the desert. The
    Earth Spirits vanish; and the stars shine out above, bright
    and mild.

CHORUS OF INVISIBLE ANGELS,

While Adam and Eve advance into the desert, hand in hand.

   Hear our heavenly promise,
    Through your mortal passion!
   Love, ye shall have from us,
     In a pure relation!
    As a fish or bird
     Swims or flies, if moving,
    We, unseen, are heard
     To live on by loving.
    Far above the glances
     Of your eager eyes,
    Listen! we are loving!
    Listen, through man's ignorances—
    Listen, through God's mysteries—
    Listen down the heart of things,
    Ye shall hear our mystic wings
     Rustle with our loving!
     Through the opal door,
     Listen evermore
     How we live by loving.
 First semichorus.
    When your bodies, therefore,
     Lie in grave or goal,
    Softly will we care for
    Each enfranchised soul!