XXXI + 

Angelic Guidance + 

Are these the tracks of some unearthly Friend, + 

His foot-prints, and his vesture-skirts of light, + 

Who, as I talk with men, conforms aright + 

Their sympathetic words, or deeds that blend + 

With my hid thought;⁠—or stoops him to attend + 

My doubtful-pleading grief;⁠—or blunts the might + 

Of ill I see not;⁠—or in dreams of night + 

Figures the scope, in which what is will end? + 

Were I Christ’s own, then fitly might I call + 

That vision real; for to the thoughtful mind + 

That walks with Him, He half unveils His face; + 

But, when on earth-stain’d souls such tokens fall, + 

These dare not claim as theirs what there they find, + 

Yet, not all hopeless, eye His boundless grace. + 