Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven, So ready is Heaven … - Francis Thompson

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Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.

Francis Thompson

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Francis Joseph Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.

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Thomas Moore Alfred Tennyson John Keats William Butler Yeats George William Russell

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O world invisible, we view thee,
O world intangible, we touch thee,
O world unknowable, we know thee,
Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

I said to Dawn: Be sudden—to Eve: Be soon.

Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven, So ready is Heaven to stoop to him. - Francis Thompson

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