Charles Hamilton Musgrove Dust Poems

• 1. The Woman Answers
  What will I say when face to face with God
  My naked soul shall come, seared with the stain
  That men call sin? Why, God will understand;
  He knew my pitiful story long before
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• 2. The Passion Play
  I.
  
  Where falls the shadow of the Kofel cross
  Athwart the Alpine snows, the rose of faith
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• 3. To C. 33
  (Oscar Wilde.)
  
  
  I gazed upon thee desolate and heard
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• 4. The Monastery
  Beyond the wall the passion flower is blooming,
  Strange hints of life along the winds are blown;
  Within, the cowled and silent men are kneeling
  Before an image on a cross of stone,
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• 5. Cupid To A Skull
  I came your way in the years gone by,
  In the summers that now are old,
  And then there was light in your beaming eye,
  And love was living and hopes were high
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• 6. The Earthworm And The Star
  An Earthworm once loved a Star. In the hush of the summer night,
  He lay quite close to the ground and gazed on its golden light;
  He looked from his house of clay, and dreamed of wonderful things,
  Till, lo! (as he thought) his longing brought forth miraculous wings.
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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. Hymn Of The Tomb Builders
  They were three old men with hoary hair
  And beards of wintry gray,
  And they digged a grave in the yellow soil,
  And they crooned this song as they plied their toil,
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• 9. De Profundis.
  I thought today within the crowded mart
  I saw thee for a moment, friend of mine,
  And all at once my blood leapt fast and fine
  And a new light broke on my shadowed heart.
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