| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Humanity |
| | | Richard Watson Dixon (b. 1833) |
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| THERE is a soul above the soul of each, | |
| A mightier soul, which yet to each belongs: | |
| There is a sound made of all human speech, | |
| And numerous as the concourse of all songs: | |
| And in that soul lives each, in each that soul, | 5 |
| Though all the ages are its lifetime vast; | |
| Each soul that dies, in its most sacred whole | |
| Receiveth life that shall forever last. | |
| And thus forever with a wider span | |
| Humanity o’erarches time and death; | 10 |
| Man can elect the universal man, | |
| And live in life that ends not with his breath: | |
| And gather glory that increase still | |
| Till Time his glass with Death’s last dust shall fill. | |
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