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But if, fir us also, as for the Greek, the sunrise means daily restoration to the sense of passionate gladness and of perfect life if it means the thrilling of new strength through every nerve, the shedding over us of a better peace than the peace of night, in the power of the dawn, and the purging of evil vision and fear by the baptism of its dew; if the sun itself is an influence, to us also, of spiritual good and becomes thus in reality, not in imagination, to us also, a spiritual power, we may then soon over-pass the narrow limit of conception which kept that power impersonal, and rise with the Greek to the thought of an angel who rejoiced as a strong man to run his course, whose voice calling to life and to labor rang round the earth, and whose going forth was to the ends of heaven.
I had an end in view, I wished to make you reject the poem, only as being discordant with the other; and, in subservience to that end, it was politically done in me to over-pass, and make no mention of, merit which, could you think me capable of overlooking, might reasonably damn forever in your judgment all pretensions in me to be critical.
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