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Veneration of Images

Thou man, first-comer, whose wide arms entreat,    Gather, clasp, welcome, bind, Lack, or remember; whose warm pulses beat    With love of thine own kind:—

Unlifted for a blessing on yon sea,    Unshrined on this highway, O flesh, O grief, thou too shalt have our knee,    Thou rood of every day!

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