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All centres in thine eye,

So all God does, if rightly understood, Shall work thy final good."

UNITED STATES

1836

Because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusa lem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus.-Ezekiel, 26:2-3,

Tyre of the farther1 West! be thou too warn'd,

Whose eagle wings thine own green world o'erspread,

Touching two Oceans: wherefore hast thou scorn'd

Thy fathers' God, O proud and full of

bread ?2

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10 The holy seed, by Heaven's peculiar grace, Is rooted here and there in thy dark woods;

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But many a rank weed round it grows

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stand,

Whence Truth her sign may make o'er forest, lake, and strand.

Eastward, this hour, perchance thou turn 'st thine ear,

Listening if haply with the surging sea,

1 This expression refers to John Henry New man's poem to England, beginning "Tyre of the West," which preceded Keble's poem in Lyra Apostolica. Tyre was the great trading center of ancient Phoenicia, and was noted for its worldliness and commercial prosperity.

2 See Ezekiel, 16:49; also Hamlet, III, 3, 80. A reference to the sheaf of arrows held in the claw of the eagle on the American coat. of-arms.

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