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Through all these bloody mists the eye of Faith discerns the ascending sun, struggling to shoot its life-giving beams upon the outspread earth, teeming with the grander products of a new civilization.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “Through all these bloody mists the eye of Faith discerns the ascending sun, struggling to shoot its life-giving beams…”
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Sumner uses a metaphor of light to symbolize hope and the emergence of a new civilization from the chaos of war.
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