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A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.

The church is a “serious house on serious earth ... In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, are recognised, and robed as destinies,” he writes.

Little by little, however, as the novelty of the air wore off, the consciousness that they were beseeching the Man of Righteousness to come out to them blent with their yearning sympathy for their melody.

White cloud with blue water blent, Cloud dipping down to wave its lazy head, Wave curling under cloud its cloudy blue.

Thus for his pictured pageant, gay or grave, He seized and fixed the moving hour's event, Maker of history by the life he gave To fact with fancy blent.