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Title: The Burnt Offering
Author: George MacDonald [ More Titles by MacDonald]
Is there a man on earth, who, every night, When the day hath exhausted each strong limb, Lays him upon his bed in chamber dim, And his heart straightway trembling with delight, Begins to burn up towards the vaulted height Of the great peace that overshadows him? Like flakes of fire his thoughts within him swim, Till all his soul is radiant, blazing bright. The great earth under him an altar is, Upon whose top a sacrifice he lies, Burning to God up through the nightly skies, Whose love, warm-brooding o'er him, kindled his; Until his flaming thoughts, consumed, expire, Sleep's ashes covering the yet glowing fire.
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