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THE ALTAR OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS

I

Light and night, whose clouds and glories change

and mingle and divide,
Veil the truth whereof they witness, show the truth of
things they hide.
Through the darkness and the splendour of the
centuries, loud or dumb,
Shines and wanes and shines the spirit, lit with love
of life to come.
Man, the soul made flesh, that knows not death from
life, and fain would know,
Sees the face of time change colour as its tides recoil
and flow.