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By James BenjaminKenyon1313 Come Slowly, Paradise
O
Come not too suddenly,
Lest my just-opened, unaccustomed eyes
Smitten with blindness be.
Rise to thy heights afar,
Down which the floods of glory fall and flow,
Too great thy splendors are.
Across death’s silent deep,
Till to thy morning brightness I shall wake
As one from happy sleep.