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Seven!


"Deep is its woe-


Eight!


"Joy- deeper still than grief can be:


Nine!


"Woe says: Hence! Go!


Ten!


"But joys all want eternity-


Eleven!


"Want deep profound eternity!"


Twelve!



60. The Seven Seals

(or, The Yes and Amen Song)

1.

IF I be a diviner and full of the divining spirit which wanders on high mountain-ridges, 'twixt two seas,-

Wanders 'twixt the past and the future as a heavy cloud- hostile to sultry plains, and to all that is weary and can neither die nor live:

Ready for lightning in its dark bosom, and for the redeem-