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RAPHAEL MENGS AND HIS "HOLY FAMILY."

So reverently he treads
 This home where heaven is,
  That you the steps might hear
  Of the very angels near,
 Almost as soon as his,

Pure breathing of a soul
 Whose depths we only guess,
  Since unto it was given
  To know so much of heaven,
 So much he could express!