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THE MYSTERY by RALPH HODGSON

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First Line: HE CAME AND TOOK ME BY THE HAND
Last Line: AND HIS OWN FACE TO SEE.
Subject(s): GOD;
He came and took me by the hand
Up to a red rose tree,
He kept His meaning to Himself
But gave a rose to me.

I did not pray Him to lay bare
The mystery to me,
Enough the rose was Heaven to smell,
And His own face to see.



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