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SAINT PAUL: 10, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: East the forefront of habitations holy
Last Line: Honour unendingly and know anew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Paul, Saint (1st Century); Saul Of Tarsus


East the forefront of habitations holy
Gleamed to Engedi, shone to Eneglaim:
Softly thereout and from thereunder slowly
Wandered the waters, and delayed, and came.

Then the great stream, which having seen he showeth,
Hid from the wise but manifest to him,
Flowed and arose, as when Euphrates floweth,
Rose from the ankles till a man might swim.

Even with so soft a surge and an increasing,
Drunk of the sand and thwarted of the clod,
Stilled and astir and checked and never-ceasing
Spreadeth the great wave of the grace of God;

Bears to the marishes and bitter places
Healing for hurt and for their poisons balm,
Isle after isle in infinite embraces
Floods and enfolds and fringes with the palm.

Ay and afar to realms and to recesses
Seen in a storm, discovered in a dream,
Fields which no folk nor any power possesses,
Oceans ungirdled of the ocean-stream:—

Yes or if loose and free, as some are telling,
(Little I know it and I little care,)
This my poor lodge, my transitory dwelling,
Swings in the bright deep of the endless air,—

Round it and round his prophets shall proclaim him,
Springing thenceforth and hurrying there-thro',—
Each to the next the generations name him,
Honour unendingly and know anew.





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