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Bailey, Philip James - from Festus I - Adversity
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018514
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Festus - I - Philip James Bailey
Lucifer. God, for thy glory only it is I act,
And for thy creatures' good.
If lightning smite not,
Nor serpent fang to achieve thy bounteous ends,
I have lost, since here the clue of things.
When creatures stray farthest from thee,
then warmest towards them burns thy love,
even as yon sun--star hotliest beams on earth,
when distant most, or seems.