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(1914) Author: Esaias Tegnér Translator: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Lewery Blackley
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THE LORD’S SUPPER 31

Fast by the Tree of Knowledge he fell, and it hangs its
crown o’er the

Fall to this day; in the Thought is the Fall; in the Heart
the Atonement.

Infinite is the Fall, the Atonement infinite likewise.

See! behind me, as far as the old man remembers, and
forward,

Far as Hope in her flight can reach with her wearied
pinions,

Sin and Atonement incessant go through the lifetime of
mortals.

Brought forth is sin full-grown; but Atonement sleeps in
our bosoms

Still as the cradled babe; and dreams of heaven and of
angels,

Cannot awake to sensation; is like the tones in the harp’s
strings,

Spirits imprisoned, that wait evermore the deliverer’s
fin-ger’

Therefore, ye children beloved, descended the Prince of
Atonement,

Woke the slumberer from sleep, and she stands now with
eyes all resplendent,

Bright as the vault of the sky, and battles with Sin and
o’er-comes her.

Downward to earth he came and transfigured, thence
re-ascended,

Not from the heart in like wise, for there he still lives in
the Spirit,

Loves and atones evermore. So long as Time is, is
Atonement.

Therefore with reverence receive this day her visible token.

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