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We have two feelings wondrous nigh --
In them the heart doth find its nurture --
First love for home and hearth's own culture,
Then love for tombs where forebears lie.
On them are based in every season
By will of God Himself alone
Man's lifelong independent reason,
A pledge of greatness for his own.
Life-giving Shrines of Holy faces!
The earth would dead without them be,
Like desert waste without oasis,
Like Altar without Deity.
In them the heart doth find its nurture --
First love for home and hearth's own culture,
Then love for tombs where forebears lie.
On them are based in every season
By will of God Himself alone
Man's lifelong independent reason,
A pledge of greatness for his own.
Life-giving Shrines of Holy faces!
The earth would dead without them be,
Like desert waste without oasis,
Like Altar without Deity.