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LIFT UP THINE EYES TO SEEK THE INVISIBLE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Golden Jerusalem floats full in View
Subject(s): GOD; FAITH; SAINTS;

Lift up thine eyes to seek the invisible:
Stir up thy heart to choose the still unseen:
Strain up thy hope in glad perpetual green
To scale the exceeding height where all saints dwell.
Saints, is it well with you ? ''" Yea, it is well, ''"
Where they have reaped, by faith kneel thou to glean:
Because they stooped so low to reap, they lean
Now over golden harps unspeakable. ''" -
But thou purblind and deafened, knowest thou
Those glorious beauties unexperienced
By ear or eye or by heart hitherto ? ''"
I know Whom I have trusted: wherefore now
All amiable, accessible tho' fenced,
Golden Jerusalem floats full in view.



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