illumine

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The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine..."

From Time Magazine Archive

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men.

From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

Illumine the brows of Thy true lovers and support them with angelic hosts of certain triumph.

From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the light of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence And justify the ways of God to men.

From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Steinmetz, Margaret Bird

Come forth in thy splendor, Illumine these walls—let them evermore be A shrine where thy votaries offerings may tender, Hallowed by genius, and sacred to thee.

From Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. by Pickard, Samuel T. (Samuel Thomas)