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A voice cried to me in a dawn of dreams	A
Saying 'Make haste the webs of death and birth	B
Are brushed away and all the threads of earth	B
Wear to the breaking spaceward gleams	A
Thine ancient pathway of the suns	C
Whose flame is part of thee	D
And the deep gulfs abide coevally	E
Whose darkness runs	C
Through all thy spirit's mystery	D
Go forth and tread unharmed the blaze	F
Of stars wherethrough thou camest in old days	F
Pierce without fear each vast	G
Whose hugeness crushed thee not within the past	G
A hand strikes off the chains of Time	H
A hand swings back the door of years	I
Now fall earth's bonds of gladness and of tears	J
And opens the strait dream to space sublime'	H
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Who rides a dream what hand shall stay	K
What eye shall note or measure mete	L
His passage on a purpose fleet	L
The thread and weaving of his way	K
It caught me from the clasping world	M
And swept beyond the brink of Sense	N
My soul was flung and poised and whirled	M
Like to a planet chained and hurled	M
With solar lightning strong and tense	N
Swift as communicated rays	F
That leap from severed suns a gloom	H
Within whose waste no suns illume	H
The winged dream fulfilled its ways	F
Through years reversed and lit again	O
I followed that unending chain	P
Wherein the suns are links of light	Q
Retraced through lineal ordered spheres	I
The twisting of the threads of years	I
In weavings wrought of noon and night	Q
Through stars and deeps I watched the dream unroll	E
Those folds that form the raiment of the soul	E
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III	-
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Enkindling dawns of memory	D
Each sun had radiance to relume	H
A sealed disused and darkened room	H
Within the soul's immensity	Q
Their alien ciphers shown and lit	Q
I understood what each had writ	Q
Upon my spirit's scroll	E
Again I wore mine ancient lives	R
And knew the freedom and the gyves	R
That formed and marked my soul	E
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IV	-
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I delved in each forgotten mind	Q
The units that had builded me	H
Whose deepnesses before were blind	Q
And formless as infinity	H
Knowing again each former world	Q
From planet unto planet whirled	Q
Through gulfs that mightily divide	Q
Like to an intervital sleep	S
One world I found where souls abide	Q
Like winds that rest upon a rose	R
Thereto they creep	S
To loose all burden of old woes	R
And one there was a garden close	R
Whose blooms are grown of ancient sin	T
And death the sap that wells and flows	R
The spirits weep that dwelt therein	T
And one I knew where chords of pain	P
With stridors fill the Senses' lyre	U
And one where Beauty's olden chain	P
Is forged anew with stranger loveliness	R
In flame soft links of never quenched desire	V
And ineluctable duress	R
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V	H
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Where no terrestrial dreams had trod	Q
My vision entered undismayed	Q
And Life her hidden realms displayed	Q
To me as to a curious god	Q
Where colored suns of systems triplicate	Q
Bestow on planets weird ineffable	E
Green light that orbs them like an outer sea	H
And large auroral noons that alternate	Q
With skies like sunset held without abate	Q
Life's touch renewed incomprehensibly	H
The strains of mirth and grief's harmonious spell	E
Dead passions like to stars relit	Q
Shone in the gloom of ways forgot	Q
Where crownless gods in darkness sit	Q
The day was full on altars hot	Q
I heard enisled in those melodic seas	R
The central music of the Pleiades	R
And to Alcyone my soul	E
Swayed with the stars that own her song's control	E
Unchallenged glad I trod a revenant	Q
In worlds Edenic longly lost	Q
Or dwelt in spheres that sing to those	R
Through space no light has crossed	Q
Diverse as Hell's mad antiphone uptossed	Q
To Heaven's angelic chant	Q
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What vasts the dream went out to find	Q
I seemed beyond the world's recall	E
In gulfs where darkness is a wall	E
To render strong Antares blind	Q
In unimagined spheres I found	Q
The sequence of my being's round	Q
Some life where firstling meed of Song	W
The strange imperishable leaf	-
Was placed on brows that starry Grief	-
Had crowned and Pain anointed long	W
Some avatar where Love	-
Sang like the last great star at morn	X
Ere the pale orb of Death filled all its sky	-
Some life in fresher years unworn	X
Upon a world whereof	-
Peace was a robe like to the calms that lie	-
On pools aglow with latter spring	Y
There Time's pellucid surface took	Z
Clear image of all things nor shook	Z
Till the black cleaving of Oblivion's wing	Y
Some earlier awakening	Y
In pristine years when giant strife	-
Of forces darkly whirled	Q
First forged the thing called Life	-
Hot from the furnace of the suns	R
Upon the anvil of a world	Q
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Thus knew I those anterior ones	R
Whose lives in mine were blent	Q
Till lo my dream that held a night	Q
Where Rigel sends no message of his might	Q
Was emptied of the trodden stars	R
And dwindled to the sun's extent	Q
The brain's familiar prison bars	R
And raiment of the sorrow and the mirth	B
Wrought by the shuttles intricate of earth	B

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