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LUX IN TENEBRIS by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "ONCE, IN MY DARKEST HOUR, IN SOME DIM PLACE"
Last Line: "THE FACE HE SAW IN HEAVEN, LOOKED DOWN ON ME"
Once, in my darkest hour, in some dim place
Of tears, I saw the light upon Her face.
Picture or painted glass, I cannot tell.
I only know it saved my soul from hell.

Oh, not the painter's hand! It was his mind
That through his darkness on my darkness shined;
But, through his mind, the love I could not see,
The face he saw in heaven, looked down on me.



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