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SPIRITUAL SONNET: ON THE SUPERNATURAL, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We must affirm the supernatural
Last Line: Of natural explanation thin and void.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E.
Subject(s): Supernatural


We must affirm the supernatural
However doubtfully we have looked upon
Its bare existence in the time that's gone,
For it is ever near and ever real;
As we shall find. We love the natural.
The human reason seated on a throne,
Creator of kingdoms for itself alone,
Is conscious of no zone ethereal.
But to an end with all this lower view,
The cause illusory, vain and yet employed;—
Angels there are and kindly daemons too,
Their throng, removed from faulty human sight,
In the unseen worlds as we should know in spite
Of natural explanation thin and void.





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