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First Line: Doubt no longer that the highest is the wisest and best
Last Line: Dark no more with human hatreds in the glare of deathless fire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed


I

DOUBT no longer that the Highest is the wisest and the best,
Let not all that saddens Nature blight thy hope or break thy rest,
Quail not at the fiery mountain, at the shipwreck, or the rolling
Thunder, or the rending earthquake, or the famine, or the pest!

II

Neither mourn if human creeds be lower than the heart's desire!
Thro' the gates that bar the distance comes a gleam of what is higher.
Wait till Death has flung them open, when the man will
make the Maker
Dark no more with human hatreds in the glare of deathless fire!







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