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One thing upon the tablet of the mind By fire should be imprinted. Nations stand Only as to the touch of that great Hand Their substance answers, which when it outlined A cosmos on the waters, and designed Earth’s granite frame, and sundered sea and land, Laid in man’s heart a Law, more deeply planned Than that of nations, compassing his kind. And in that Law eternal stands revealed How by self-abnegation man at length Comes to himself, how to the meek is sealed The habitable earth, how human strength Is perfected in weakness, into dross Earth’s glory sinks confronted with Christ’s cross.

HESEPE, 25th July