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Samaria

O rail not at our kindred in the North,

Albeit Samaria finds her likeness there;

A self-form’d Priesthood, and the Church cast forth

To the chill mountain air.

What, though their fathers sinned, and lost the grace

Which seals the Holy Apostolic Line?

Christ’s love o’erflows the bounds his Prophets trace

In His reveal’d design.

Israel had Seers; to them the Word is nigh;

Shall not that Word run forth, and gladness give

To many a Shunammite, till in His eye

The full Seven-thousand live?