England's Antiphon by George MacDonald
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That lelly hyghte your life to raise _who truly promised._
Though fortune did your flesh to die; _caused._ To set his words full westernays[27] That love no thing but ye it syghe! _see._ And that is a point of surquedrie, _presumption._ That each good man may evil beseem, _ill become._ To leve no tale be true to tryghe, _trust in._ But that his one skill may deme."[28] Much conversation follows, the glorified daughter rebuking and instructing her father. He prays for a sight of the heavenly city of which she has been speaking, and she tells him to walk along the bank until he comes to a hill. In recording what he saw from the hill, he follows the description of the New Jerusalem given in the Book of the Revelation. He sees the Lamb and all his company, and with them again his lost Pearl. But it was not his prince's pleasure that he should cross the stream; for when his eyes and ears were so filled with delight that he could no longer restrain the attempt, he awoke out of his dream. My head upon that hill was laid There where my pearl to groundé strayed. I wrestled and fell in great affray, _fear._ And sighing to myself I said, "Now all be to that prince's paye." _pleasure._ After this, he holds him to that prince's will, and yearns after no more than he grants him. "As in water face is to face, so the heart of man." Out of the far past comes the cry of bereavement |
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