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evidently the will of the Creator, that although in 

 these visions of ' Paradise lost ' we are looking, not 

 on the ' things which are seen/ but on those which 

 are 'unseen' ... for this happy garden is no 

 more on earth . . . and the tree of life now blooms 

 only by the celestial fount of life ... we know, 

 and are sure that those signs of omnipotent love 

 shall be at length accomplished in the 'new heavens 

 and earth wherein dwelleth righteousness;' for, 

 while the ' things seen ' with all their clouds and 

 conflicts, are transient and temporal, the ideals of 

 ' things unseen/ in all their purity and peace, are 

 imperishable and eternal/' 



