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Come forth to life again ? And, oh! shall man 
Descend into the grave to rise no more ? 
Shall he, the master of this world, 
Image and offspring of the fontal life, 
Through endless ages sleep in dust ? 
— Thomas. 
“The sower sows the earth with seed, 
And hopes ’twill give to blessings birth, 
Of Heaven’s grace the graceful meed. 
More precious seeds in earth’s dark womb 
We sow with sorrow’s trembling hand, 
And hope that, rising from the tomb. 
They’ll blossom in that Better Land.” 
— Schiller » 
God is Everywhere. 
“The glory of Him who moveth everything 
Doth penetrate the universe, and shine 
In one part more and in another less.” 
— Dante’s Paradise, I, 1-3. 
thoroughly encompassed by the watery deep as we are by the Divine 
immensity; for the sea has its bounds, this immensity has none. Which¬ 
ever way we move and to whatever point we direct our steps, it is still 
within the ocean of that boundless immensity of God which surrounds us 
and invests us on every side. God, by His concurrent power and essence, 
is not only diffused around us in the light we see and in which we see, and 
in the air we breathe; He is, moreover, infused into our very souls: He 
FISH swimming in the sea, to use some faint comparison, is not so 
