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STERN TRUTHS TRANSFIGURED by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE

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First Line: THOSE MOUNTAIN FORMS OF GIANT GIRTH
Last Line: TRANSFIGURED BY LOVE'S MORNING-STAR.

THOSE mountain forms of giant girth
Are rooted deep in moveless earth;
But lo! their yearning heights withdrawn,
Are melting in soft seas of dawn.

What golden lights and shadows kiss
Brown ledge and Titan precipice!
Till all the rock-bound, sullen space
Glows like a visionary face:

Thus frowning truths whose roots are furled
Round bases of some granite world,
May lift their mellowed light afar,
Transfigured by love's morning-star.



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