55. Melchizedek
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"Without father, without mother, without
descent; having
neither beginning of days, nor end of life."
THRICE bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness;
To whom nor voice of friends nor pleasant
scene
Brings aught on which the sadden'd heart
can
lean;
Yea, the rich earth, garb'd in her daintiest dress
Of light and joy, doth but the more oppress,
Claiming responsive smiles and rapture
high;
Till, sick at heart, beyond the veil they
fly,
Seeking His Presence, who alone can bless.
Such, in strange days, the weapons of Heaven's
grace;
When, passing o'er the high-born Hebrew line,
He moulds the vessel of His vast design;
Fatherless, homeless, reft of age and place,
Sever'd from earth, and careless of its wreck,
Born through long woe His rare Melchizedek.
Corfu.
January 5, 1833.