And this I know; whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,
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And this I know; whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,
One flash of it within the Tavern caught
Better than in the temple lost outright.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.

He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it read more

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that
intense light will not make it beautiful.

There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high read more

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight;
Casting a dim religious light.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er read more

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.