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1859–1907

A JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN

Francis Thompson

Athwart the sod which is treading for God the poet paced with his splendid eyes; Paradise-verdure he stately passes to win to the Father of Paradise, Through the conscious and palpitant grasses of inter-tangled relucent dyes.

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