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... turn and find God -not another , but Himself , in very truth - by their side . This ceaseless quest is the burden of Francis Thompson's greatest poem- " The Hound of Heaven . " The poem is the product of an ex- perience . He had been ...
... turn and find God -not another , but Himself , in very truth - by their side . This ceaseless quest is the burden of Francis Thompson's greatest poem- " The Hound of Heaven . " The poem is the product of an ex- perience . He had been ...
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... turning what should be a means of communion with God into a screen which His grace has to make luminous by fiery burnings . ( a ) He retreats within himself thinking to bar the door of his own life against the Great Seeker . " I fled ...
... turning what should be a means of communion with God into a screen which His grace has to make luminous by fiery burnings . ( a ) He retreats within himself thinking to bar the door of his own life against the Great Seeker . " I fled ...
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... turning to meet his own conscience ? That inward monitor speaks with an authority which is derived from no human source . The human soul is no place for one to escape God . He knows those " labyrinthine ways " far better than we know ...
... turning to meet his own conscience ? That inward monitor speaks with an authority which is derived from no human source . The human soul is no place for one to escape God . He knows those " labyrinthine ways " far better than we know ...
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... Turn not your tread along the Uranian sod Among the bearded counsellors of God . " Pass where majestical the eternal peers , The stately choice of the great Saintdom meet . Look for me in the nurseries of heaven . " But the nursery is ...
... Turn not your tread along the Uranian sod Among the bearded counsellors of God . " Pass where majestical the eternal peers , The stately choice of the great Saintdom meet . Look for me in the nurseries of heaven . " But the nursery is ...
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... turning hastily , he had obtained a half glimpse of the Summoner : " With glooming robes purpureal , cypress- crowned . " The trumpet called to heroic sacrifice , and it was from that dread call he had turned so persistently away . It ...
... turning hastily , he had obtained a half glimpse of the Summoner : " With glooming robes purpureal , cypress- crowned . " The trumpet called to heroic sacrifice , and it was from that dread call he had turned so persistently away . It ...
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