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Thou wast as very Christ—not he
God only, being of all mankind
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AFTER NINE YEARS.
99
Loved past man's utterance: yea, the same,
Perchance, and as his name thy name.
4.
Degraded into Deity,
And priest-polluted by such prayer
As poisons air,
Tongue-worship of the tongue that slays,
False faith and parricidal praise:
But the man crowned with suffering days.
5.
Most manlike, of most equal mind
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