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George MacDonald

I waited for the Master
  In the darkness dumb;
Light came fast and faster—
  My light did not come!

I waited all the daylight,
  All through noon’s hot flame:
In the evening’s gray light,
  Lo, the Master came!

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From The Poetical Works of George MacDonald | 1893

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