Charles Hamilton Musgrove Deep Poems

• 1. The Story Of Moses
  This is the story of Moses,
  The earliest scribe that we keep:
  Void was the earth and formless,
  And dark was the face of the deep,
  ...
• 2. Ode To The New Century
  The dial has pointed the hour and the hour has rounded the day,
  The day has finished the year that dies with a century's birth;
  Eastward the morning stars sing as they go their way:
  "Lo! the Great Mother travaileth, a king is born to the earth!
  ...
• 3. Atonement
  You were a red rose then, I know,
  Red as her wine--yea, redder still,--
  Say rather her blood; and ages ago
  (You know how destiny hath its will)
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• 4. The Tornado
  God let me fall from His hand
  One day at His forge when the elemental world
  Was shaping. I am but a breath from His great bellows,
  But here among the workshops of mankind
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• 5. The Passing Race
  I.
  
  Silent as ever, stoic as of old,
  The scattered nomads of that dusky race
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• 6. The Riddle Of The Sphinx
  From age to age the haggard human train
  Creeps wearily across Time's burning sands
  To look into her face, and lift weak hands
  In supplication to the calm disdain
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• 7. Columbus' Last Voyage
  (Written on the exhumation and reburial in Spain of the bones of Christopher Columbus.)
  
  
  Once more upon the ocean's heaving breast
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• 8. Kenotaphion
  O wanderer! whoever thou mayest be,
  I beg of thee to pass in silence here
  And leave me with my empty sepulchre
  Beside the ceaseless turmoil of the sea;
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• 9. Midsummer Noon
  Through shimmering skies the big clouds slowly sail;
  A faint breeze lingers in the rustling beech;
  Atop the withered oak with vagrant speech
  The brawling crows call down the sleepy vale;
  ...

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