Song-waves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O soul that art essential change	A
Bickering beams a flutter strange	A
Lightning of thought and gust of passion	B
A silver thread in this mountain range	A
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The waters of thy shimmering rill	C
More real are they than granite hill	C
Thy tremulous waves of mystic feeling	D
Nourish a life of enduring will	C
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The sun and moon from spacious height	E
And stars may crumble into night	E
Why shouldst thou cease to move forever	F
A living glow of eternal light	E
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Spirit of Song life's golden ray	G
That burneth in this house of clay	G
Despite the stress of blast and tempest	H
To quench the flickering light and play	G
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Rapture of seraphs bright thou art	I
Yet kindlest in the human heart	I
The fluid soul's upbreathed emotion	B
Whose light shines clear as a star apart	I
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A fairer light of sweeter fame	J
Than science knows to praise or blame	J
Wherein the soul has open vision	B
And feels the glow of His holy flame	J
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Impressions vast and vague flow in	K
From Somewhat that to me is kin	K
Shall I assemble them all careless	L
In the mind's garret or waste dust bin	K
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Nay In solution in the soul's	L
Own hot equators frosty poles	L
I'll more and more their import cherish	M
Their deeps on deeps to my shelving shoals	L
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O heart with tentacles in sea	L
Like oral disked anemone	N
Taste thou the wine of shoreless oceans	L
And feed on food that was meant for thee	L
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'Tis fit the bloodroot in white hood	O
Should brave the parting winter's mood	P
Come thou pale violet streaked sweet scented	Q
Beside the runs of this tempered wood	O
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I hunger for thy gentle face	L
Sweetest of all the wildwood race	L
O flower at once ideal and essence	L
Why stayest thou from thy wonted place	L
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Thou art not dead Nay when death crept	R
Upon thy form thy full life leapt	R
Defiance at the harsh destroyer	F
And slept as seed Thou hast overslept	R
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The sweep O heart of Love's account	S
Hearken I am of life the Fount	S
All are within My deeps of Being	D
The toiling city the sea the mount	S
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Yea when thou cleav'st the pillared tree	L
Raisest the stone I am with thee	L
Darkness and light flux and becoming	D
Signal My presence and ceaselessly	L
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Regard Me not as though afar	T
Ope thine heart's eyes and lo My Star	T
Burns 'neath Time's vesture true Shekinah	N
Centre and Soul of the things that are	T
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Superbest power with sweetness wed	S
The inner eye doth overspread	S
And vasts of nature blend as beauty	S
Suffused with awe at the Fountain Head	S
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The stream of power that floweth here	U
I see in pageant of the year	V
Aye shimmering as light and shadow	S
A wonderment on the verge of fear	V
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The world's not dead but animate	S
And gives as free to mean as great	S
Wealth of true power is not a kingdom	W
Of time and place but the soul's estate	S
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Above the scarred cliff's iron brow	X
There speeds the fruitful crooked plow	X
While on the soft west wind come odors	L
Of plumy pine and of balsam bough	X
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Here at the base another sight	S
It ceaseth not by day nor night	S
Ormudz and Ahriman contending	D
Destroyer dark and White Soul of light	S
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Bared by life's ever beating brine	N
The rocky bases that define	N
Of good and ill the place of meeting	D
Be bugle call to this heart of mine	N
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After the winds there is surcease	L
Take courage heart and be at peace	L
The printless beach all combed and shining	D
In beauty lies with its windrow fleece	L
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Impetuous as a torrent's speed	S
White horses raced this watery mead	S
With manes of chrysoprase aflowing	D
Each neighing loud to its neighbour steed	S
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The wastes that finger pebbly shores	L
Unplowed by ship nor cut by oars	L
His music wake as sweet as attar	F
And flash in light as the heavenly floors	L
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Filled oft with portents oft withdrawn	N
My inward skies from earliest dawn	N
To this full hour have borne their witness	L
Of one who out of the darkness shone	N
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The soul is dowered with awful things	L
Mystic as sound of unseen wings	L
The sense of God of Law of Duty	S
Of Life and Destiny Signet rings	L
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Flash on these fingers of one hand	S
The Hand of God The mean the grand	S
Tremble beneath the fearsome covert	S
Till lurid sky with the Rainbow's spanned	S
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Who loveth not the elm tree fair	Y
A fountain green in summer air	Y
Whose tremulous spray cools the faint meadow	S
And croons to all of a careless care	Y
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It shades the city's paven way	G
Where redbreast knows the white moon's ray	G
It sentinels the moss grown homestead	S
And waits the men of a coming day	G
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Its curving lines that fill the sight	S
Like mellow meteor's path of light	S
Or orb d spring of walls of azure	F
My spirit greet from the infinite	S
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Men plow and sow while moves the sun	N
Away away from work begun	N
Ofttimes they've heard Seedtime and harvest	S
Are sure the word of the Sovereign One	N
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We link our deeds with law supreme	Z
In field and flood in wood and stream	Z
We test Omnipotence by labor	F
And reap rewards of no idle dream	Z
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Obedience is the astringent wine	N
That's quaffed by strenuous souls and fine	N
Of cloudy doubt the heavenly solvent	S
The Christ's elixir of life divine	N
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Doubt flies before the truth that's quired	S
When earth in living green 's attired	S
As ghosts before the daystar's rising	D
The grass is ever God finger spired	S
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When life is low my awe stirred soul	A2
No vision has of nature's whole	A2
It would unsheathe a weapon naked	S
And cut the bands of divine control	A2
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The Nazarene knows no decrease	L
He shed His beams on Rome and Greece	L
O radiant is His word Consider	F
The springing grass and have rest and peace	L
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The bird of needle beak and breast	S
Of orange flame doth weave its nest	S
At tip of branch a cradle swinging	D
To all the airs of the south and west	S
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Who schooled thy needle to begin	N
Its forth and back and out and in	N
Till plaited cot a gourd like pendant	S
Shall temper winds to thy first of kin	N
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Thy sun bright mate his joy to prove	B2
Flutes sweet his ardors from above	C2
O golden robin skyey nested	S
Thou rockest safe in the arms of Love	C2
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Pure lily open on the breast	S
Of toiling waters' much unrest	S
Thy simple soul mounts up in worship	D2
Like ecstasy of a spirit blest	S
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Thy wealth of ivory and gold	S
All that thou hast thou dost unfold	S
Fixed in the unseen thy life breathes upward	S
A heavenly essence from out earth's mould	S
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Now comes the chill and dusk of night	S
Folds up thy precious gold and white	S
Thy casket sinks within veiled bosom	W
To ope the richer in morrow's light	S
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Revolving without rest and goal	A2
The way of life of budding soul	A2
From seed to leaf and stalk I see it	S
From leaf to bloom and from bloom to whole	A2
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About the Daystar God indwelt	S
It turneth to His influence felt	S
Till dusk beam smitten into daylight	S
It in the palpitant heavens doth melt	S
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Lift lift ye gates of endless noons	L
That entrance yield on God's own boons	L
Of liberty as law in fruitage	A
And timeless months of transcendent Junes	L
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O June has lit her splendid lamp	E2
In the broad meadow lush and damp	E2
Where loves the brook in loops to loiter	F
And tufted vernal to pitch its camp	E2
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Last night she veiled the starlit sky	D
And walked beside the brook so shy	D
She took from out her beating bosom	W
A lighted orchis and passed on high	D
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At dawn July came o'er the hills	L
O light of eye and deep heart thrills	L
As she beheld the glowing orchis	L
Whose splendor now all the meadow fills	L
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A quiet breath distils in calm	F2
And fills the fields with honeyed balm	F2
It cools the rose's cheek and rolleth	L
In drops of dew on the poppy's palm	F2
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Each crystal globe filled full of fire	F
And flashing like a color pyre	F
All heavened beneath the eye of morning	D
To sate the hunger of day's desire	F
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O Breath divine that form and hue	G2
And ecstasy of light and blue	G2
Gave to Orion and the Pleiads	L
Thou hast begotten the orbs of dew	G2
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Far off and veiled it seems to me	S
The face of yester dreamy sea	S
That breathed so soft its shining waters	L
Pungent with odors of rosemary	S
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No sculptured arabesque to day	S
But unhewn strength in mighty play	S
That heaves the ship on bursting billow	S
And smites the cliff in its ancient way	S
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Beneath its silken vestments beat	S
A lion heart of jungle heat	S
Its couchant soul delights in battle	H2
To fell the rock and to whelm the fleet	S
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Vast promise is the sea and vast	S
Its pain Its secret is held fast	S
Now hope's wide open eye and sunny	S
And now a weeping and wailing past	S
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I have a grievance unredrest	S
That stings my heart and rends my breast	S
Perhaps it gathers in its bosom	W
The sorrows wild of the world's opprest	S
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Deformity or pain unstrings	L
The music of the soul of things	L
Ah suns burn bright in eyes of panther	F
And lightnings leap in the eagle's wings	L
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Calm soul unkindled by the sight	S
Of open heavens at noon of night	S
Thou'lt dread the fires of day of judgment	S
When roll the skies as a parchment slight	S
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He waits not for that upward gaze	L
The world is full of judgment days	L
And every night the page is written	N
An atheist or Behold he prays	L
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Ah me These lights so manifold	S
So silvern new so golden old	S
Do witness swift like fires of vengeance	L
Against indifferent hearts and cold	S
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There are no solitudes to view	G2
The whole world lies in drop of dew	G2
From where it hangs all space is open	N
It neighbors stars of the crystal blue	G2
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This open vision has my soul	A2
Athrill with silent organ roll	A2
Of immanence divine and feels it	S
Upgather all in harmonious whole	A2
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Deep waves of God's vast music clear	V
That pulse one choral atmosphere	V
Of Love's concordant purposes and	S
Fore score the song of His golden year	V
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If mighty angels fair and tall	I2
Each robed as priestly seneschal	I2
On altar suns burn incense daily	I2
As wheel the systems to Love's sweet call	I2
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Earth's sun is sure an altar rose	L
Abloom from dawn to day's bright close	L
The mighty angel stoops above it	S
With pulsing wings as it golden glows	L
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To fan the incense waves through space	L
When buds the light or folds its grace	L
He lifts erect his glorious stature	F
Kindling the sky from his ruddy face	L
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Across the hills the cattle call	I2
As black the boding shadows fall	I2
Zigzag the lightning writes its message	A
That's thundered forth from the mountain wall	I2
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From out the overhanging frown	N
The loosened rain comes rattling down	N
The swallow's gone the daisy cowers	L
But joy to fields in their tan and brown	N
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The burnished cypher of the sky	D
Now lets the loud tongued thunder die	D
Nature's delight a timeless rapture	F
Glows in her face and rekindled eye	D
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The trees of God the prophet said	S
Great trees with sap and laurelled head	S
Ay trees of God all strength all beauty	I2
Wove by invisible Hand and thread	S
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With anchors flexed as lissome withe	L
With boles like mighty monolith	L
These arms of brawn outstretched in power	F
To brave the storms that would test their pith	L
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Lords of the scene in blasts and calms	L
The breath of life within their palms	L
They rhythmic sway in choral murmur	F
While seas and suns chant their rolling psalms	L
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The flecks of gold that glorify	D
The forest floors to loving eye	D
Withdraw from me a splendor lingers	L
On trees of God in their crowns on high	D
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And as the arch with stars is sprent	S
I hear balm dew from firmament	S
Drip richly from their whispering leafage	A
To soothe the fields to a sweet content	S
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In bloom of dark they softly stir	F
Till arrowy dawn the shadow blur	F
Dispels God's tingling kiss of morning	D
On oak and maple and pine and fir	F
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The ideal is a lifting sky	D
Wherein my soul may upward fly	D
It moveth as I onward journey	I2
Solace of heart and the light of eye	D
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Spirit to spirit Thus is wrought	S
All that uplifts the world of thought	S
Or wings the soul with aspiration	N
By which the life to its height is brought	S
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Great souls the mount of vision trod	S
While plumy fire their sandals shod	S
They saw the unseen and eternal	I2
O life is life when 'tis seen in God	S
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The spirit firm and swelling soul	I2
Are heart of noble self control	I2
Sources of power transmuting danger	F
To clarion call to the man as whole	I2
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'Tis courage helms the bark that's tost	S
By wild typhoon or swept by frost	S
While sailing life's surprising ocean	N
Strike sail to fear and the bark is lost	S
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O muse thou sing'st no siren strain	N
To him who plows this heaven domed main	N
Thy starry eyes look down all wistful	I2
On souls that toy with a tangled skein	N
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Man's highest word as God's above	C2
The golden word of words is love	C2
Its whisper is the soul's one rapture	F
Its voice the voice of the brooding dove	C2
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Immortal rose of joy elate	S
Thy perfume's waft by palace gate	S
Or hovel door in cloud or sunshine	N
That breath of Eden which all hearts wait	S
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Ensouled in clay man's glory is	L
Yet love dilates this soul of his	L
Till chrysalis of earth be shattered	S
And comes the answer to Psyche's quiz	L
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Love bows herself in holy prayer	Y
To worship ever the All Fair	Y
She coins her heart in largess golden	N
And beggars self on her altar stair	Y
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Love lifts her hands that liker yet	S
To One whom on the way she met	S
All hearts may glow as sea to sky light	S
Till earth shall never its heaven forget	S
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Love bears upon her ardent breast	S
The fainting ones in east and west	S
And yearning cries Let come Thy kingdom	W
Be Thou of sorrowing hearts the guest	S
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As on a hill top near the sun	N
The stars are unseen every one	N
While from its base within the valley	I2
Their festal pomp is e'en now begun	N
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So lowly lives 'mid shadows passed	S
Have higher skies above them massed	S
See galaxies and constellations	L
The many mansions o'er them englassed	S
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Encamped am I earth's not my home	J2
The glory flashing 'neath yon dome	J2
Refusing to be leashed like music	D
Supernal is and it beckons Come	W
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Sunshine O soul is not a mood	S
Open the life unto the good	S
The great sun globes itself at morning	D
In dewy lawns but 'tis dark in wood	S
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Up up and purge thy spirit's sight	S
See wheeling wings superb in flight	S
Of golden eagle's aspiration	N
E'en thus aspire to the Central Light	S
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In loom divine the clouds are wove	K2
And shot with hues of irised dove	C2
The blinding shafts of light to temper	F
With airy curtains of Love's own love	C2
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A bird on sudden as I write	S
Through open door in eager flight	S
Seeks refuge from a falcon's talons	L
Upon my breast in its fearful plight	S
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Slight bird and dark in olive green	N
With yellow throat thy living sheen	N
Doth come and go with thy heart's throbbing	D
Safe safe art thou from his talons keen	N
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I am as God to thee poor thing	D
Now take thee to thy heaven and sing	D
A virelay for thy deliverance	L
Sweet vireo of the olive wing	D
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Fresh sprig of greenest southernwood	S
Thou call'st me back to my childhood	S
Thy aromatic odors waken	N
A thousand echoes I hear the good	S
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Old man of God long haired and tall	I2
In the old church to great and small	I2
His lightning message give and listen	N
The echoing thunder that rolled o'er all	I2
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The tiny child twirls oft its spray	S
Of southernwood 'tis a far day	S
Yet fresh I smell the keen aroma	L2
See arms ahovering Let us pray	S
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I feel the season's dreamy call	I2
In hawkbit asters 'pyeweed tall	I2
Glory of August ere September	F
Trumpet the note of the hasting fall	I2
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A flash in crystal waters cold	S
O dream in silver red and gold	S
The speckled trout above the gravel	I2
Lies by the rock where the stream is rolled	S
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Grasshoppers chirp and crickets chir	F
The rich tagged alders nod and pur	F
The kine bells drowse the distant pasture	F
All nature waits for the coming stir	F
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This golden browed September land	S
Is rich of heart and free of hand	S
Fresh from the mint of God and taintless	L
Are flung her guineas of gold like sand	S
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Here where the road winds round the hill	I2
And down beside the tidal mill	I2
Marsh goldenrod and its plumed sister	F
Their spangled ore in a largess spill	I2
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The Sabbath sabbatize said He	I2
This gold is sacred unto me	I2
Rich gift of God unknown of mammon	N
Kingdom of Heaven by the roadside free	I2
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I keep one picture in my heart	S
To be of life a cherished part	S
A picture waiting yet its canvas	L
From master hand of divinest art	S
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A wan blind man and Christ sun brown	N
Hand in His hand are walking down	N
The throng d street into the open	N
Beyond the walls of Bethsaida town	N
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Light of the world with night in kiss	L
Pathetic scene a scene of bliss	L
The rayless eyes are touched to healing	D
Was ever picture so sweet as this	L
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As turns my heart its crimson leaves	L
And life's own diary freshly weaves	L
I see the pages glow intenser	I2
A wondrous story my bosom heaves	L
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Beneath the careless lines there writ	S
Appear in beauty clear sunlit	S
Mysterious Love's own tender story	I2
How this poor heart to His own was knit	S
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Mine mine while moons the waters move	B2
Mine while Heaven lasts and Love is Love	C2
Methinks He hid this sweet love favor	I2
That I might find it my treasure trove	K2
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Sure in this realm of Sense and Time	M2
Passes an endless pantomime	M2
Of life and thought whose tone and color	I2
A shadow is of a heavenly prime	M2
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The rose unfolds from the unseen	N
It was not to the senses keen	N
'Tis broken to the vision softly	I2
A crown of crowns of the summer's green	N
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In hushed and breathless Beauty's name	J
From out the veiled deeps as flame	J
It comes a thing of sense of spirit	S
And passeth out by the way it came	J
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All day an ashen light serene	N
Has brooded o'er this longed for scene	N
Its tints and damask flush all hiding	D
As if obscured by a dusky screen	N
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Here when a child I used to lie	D
For hours and watch the clouds go by	D
See the black shadows climb the mountain	N
Or safely ride o'er the billowy rye	D
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O Beauty shy as sylvan run	N
Demure as some sweet hooded nun	N
And wrapt about with grey of gloaming	D
Unveil thy face to the sinking sun	N
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Never before has my ear heard	S
A sweeter music passion stirred	S
Nor depth and purity so azurn	N
Of breathing dawn and of morning bird	S
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She comes in heyday of her blood	S
Over the groves and waiting flood	S
The air is vital with her presence	L
And banners wave from the woodbine's bud	S
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AEolian sylphs touch soft their lutes	L
Brooks tinkle tinkle past the roots	L
As Beauty hidden in the cover	I2
Fingers the stops of her melting flutes	L
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Dimly beheld thou excellent	S
Ideal of grace 'tis ravishment	S
To breathe thy atmosphere O Beauty	S
Whene'er thou stirr'st in thy greening tent	S
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I cannot see thee as thou art	S
Nor trace thy goings but in part	S
O dearer thus like starry music	D
Half heard that thrills with its string my heart	S
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If thou shouldst part thy sheeny veil	I2
And strike thy fires my heart would quail	I2
Beneath the eye of naked glory	S
The molten sun as the moon be pale	I2
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Fair as the light on fire tipt hills	L
From out her hollow hand she spills	L
The pale and powdery moonbeams sifting	D
O'er sleeping farms and the winking rills	L
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The silvered leaves smile in their sleep	N2
Headlands their hoary watches keep	N2
The glimmering ships the moonglade furrow	I2
The path where beauty fore walks the deep	N2
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And now the powdery beam is thrown	N
On marguerite and pearl moonstone	N
On fluffy bird with wing aweary	I2
Soft dreaming child 'tis her silver blown	N
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With lathe of viewless hyaline	N
She shapes the shell and scale and fin	N
Dropping unseen her pearls of moonlight	S
And blushes all as her kith and kin	N
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Distaff of light is in her hand	S
From which she spins the lily and	S
The sendal robes of field and forest	S
With dewy odors in every strand	S
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And from her snow white palette's dyes	L
She paints the peacock's hundred eyes	L
The robin's egg the apple blossom	W
And domes the world with her sapphire skies	L
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Her steps fall sweet as summer rain	N
And lull to dream the thoughts of pain	N
O glowing grass O violet skyey	D
Ye hint of something of fairer grain	N
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She outruns sympathy of crowds	L
Her dwelling is above the clouds	L
She stoops to kiss the rose to crimson	N
Her face no featureless mask enshrouds	L
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Her chatelaine's of amber fine	N
No hue of coming autumn's wine	N
But she outpours from tawny beaker	I2
And fills each grape of the swelling vine	N
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Celestial sweetness swift outstrips	L
The light unleashed of its eclipse	L
A fire of dew burns in her bosom	W
And steady glows through her eyes and lips	L
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She holds fair forms of ferns and seeds	L
Lichens and fruits and burnished reeds	L
And pours in wake of mellow harvest	S
Splendors of flame on the leaves and weeds	L
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O give give me my own of that	S
Which sweeps and circles like the bat	S
Around me as I walk in ether	I2
O fair Divine at whose feet I've sat	S
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Unnumbered traits shine in thy face	L
Harmonious blent in Time and Space	L
Ideal of form of tone of color	I2
Of thought emotion and deed O Grace	L
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Ay me I speak familiar words	L
Thou art a presence of my Lord's	L
Spirit of splendor thou O Beauty	S
That lights His brow and that crowns and girds	L
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O Christ Thou bright Heaven's Morning Star	I2
In whom all live and move and are	I2
Thou Chiefest altogether lovely	S
Beauty in Time is Thy avatar	I2
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The scarlet arch of evening fills	L
Heights o'er the vapor laden hills	L
With brilliant samite robes that flutter	I2
Something beneath that my spirit thrills	L
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O Infinite and Whom I bless	L
Glow of embodied perfectness	L
O Sea of supersensuous Being	D
Whose tides the unutterable express	L
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This this it was that Plato saw	L
On back of Heaven Let self withdraw	L
From this o'ermastering light and splendor	I2
These rolling waves of a trembling awe	O2
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This tiny life with exquisite wings	L
Is one with all earth's moving things	L
The light that burns in great Arcturus	L
Is tinct with gold of our wedding rings	L
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In every fibre every jot	S
The universe is one I wot	S
Great God Thou'rt One and we Thy offspring	D
Can see some angles of Thy wide thought	S
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Thy footprints mark the ageless years	L
Thy hand authenticates the spheres	L
The voice of Time the hush eternal	I2
One anthem sound in Thy listening ears	L
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Philosophy doth dig and draw	L
Instinct translateth into law	L
The universe in one God dwelling	D
The poet's vision forekenned with awe	O2
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He is a seer in night of Time	M2
Casting red foregleams in his rhyme	M2
Of rising stars on man's horizon	N
Herald of truth of a choral clime	M2
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Impassioned truth from inward deeps	L
That oft like lightning sudden leaps	L
From darkness blazing a far pathway	S
To hills of God which the sunlight steeps	L
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The infinite in grand repose	L
Moves under life's tempestuous throes	L
As move the waters deep of ocean	N
Far 'neath the ship when the tempest blows	L
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The cloud rack streams across the sky	D
The breaking billows threaten high	D
These are Time's shadows on the voyage	A
And bring the infinite Presence nigh	D
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All sunlit seas in joyous dance	L
Might show life but as happy chance	L
Nor hint of One who saves divinely	S
My faith is linked with deliverance	L
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Two lives made one the man and wife	P2
A mystic thing to world of strife	P2
Serenity of oneness wholeness	L
Repose of love as the law of life	P2
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Uncaught by skill of painter's art	S
There glows a radiance of the heart	S
In which the naked truth as sculpture	I2
Is seen in colorless calm apart	S
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A luminous calm of spiritual light	S
Dissolving drop serene of sight	S
Oft gathering o'er the eye of reason	N
And robing day in the folds of night	S
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The mirrored silence of this pool	I2
Reveals a world of noiseless rule	I2
It soothes and rests my fevered spirit	S
A bath of balm of the deeps and cool	I2
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Still move the clouds still wheel the skies	L
The aspiring tree no longer sighs	L
Fair thoughts of God full clothed in Heaven	N
All calm and beautiful in Love's eyes	L
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Glassed in the light of Heaven's repose	L
He wears perfection like a rose	L
Impatient heart be still Thou se st	S
He brings His work to a perfect close	L
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Over the brow of lofty scar	I2
Quivers the light of evening star	I2
And throws within the gorge's gloaming	D
A kiss of beams on the brook afar	I2
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Quivers the stream with strange delight	S
Through all the murmuring hours of night	S
And to the pale moss tells its story	S
And lichens fumbling far up the height	S
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And in its dusk for aye the brook	D
To cliffy covert caverned nook	D
Brattles its sweet and starry secret	S
Foregleam of day and an open look	D
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Look now The crested waters sleep	N2
White stars their emerald twilight keep	N2
Above the tryst of pensile glories	L
That kiss to purple and gold the deep	N2
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Blossoms the rose red as its name	M2
The trees aspire to heaven like flame	M2
Articulate the gold eyed songsters	L
While angels lean from their place of fame	M2
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O sleep sleep now sleep silverly	I2
Radiant divine deep bosomed sea	L
Thy cradle rocks to skyey breathings	L
Bright fall Love's shadows on you and me	L
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How swift soft feathered Time sails on	N
Its skyward flight nor stays to con	N
The gulfs of space it wingeth over	I2
Mere pools that hint of a shoreless yon	N
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Sunsets and dawns mirage the sea	L
Foreshadow Nature's fixed decree	L
While steady rolls the round of seasons	L
The soul foreknows its eternity	L
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From spiritual heights beyond the spheres	L
My ear elusive music hears	L
In stressful hours it falls and hovers	L
And life is lift to AEonian years	L
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My quickened sense can only plod	S
Imagination waves its rod	S
My spirit burns with lightning splendor	I2
Emotive faith tastes the bread of God	S
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As moves the wind on sightless wings	L
Nor shadow o'er the landscape flings	L
While seas to chafe of foam are beaten	N
And plectrum sweeps all the forest strings	L
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So through the world doth Spirit move	B2
And presence by His working prove	B2
A mystery of might and music	D
A lonelihood of eternal love	C2
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What Nature mirrors and reveals	L
The purblind vision it unseals	L
To sight of awesome Presence holy	L
That chastens sore ere He soothes and heals	L
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The reign of law with ethic rule	I2
E'en in the breast of idle fool	I2
As moon and stars are heavenly pictured	S
Within the breast of a noisome pool	I2
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Herein is claim of Nature's worth	L
Though I forget the forms of earth	L
Of gilded cloud and circling planet	S
I know His fire lives within their girth	L
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Green tracery of fern to rust	S
The shouldering hills to level dust	S
This is the law of rhythmic nature	I2
The ebb and flow of its may and must	S
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I hear the wind harp's wilding tones	L
Sobbing a requiem o'er their bones	L
The golden glob d skies shall perish	M
The harper harps as he wails and moans	L
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Wild heart within thy ruby vault	S
Is flashed a purpose free of fault	S
From great High Priest's own breast plate splendid	S
E'en deathless life out of death's assault	S
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What though the sea shell cheats the ear	I2
And from my blood free coursing near	I2
Unspheres the far and murmurous phantom	M2
Of breaking seas that I faintly hear	I2
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Of life beyond there come to me	L
Hints truer than shell's phantom sea	L
I brood all space the past the present	S
And timeless realms of eternity	L
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The rose lipt thing has lost its pearl	I2
Death's chamber is its polished whorl	I2
I am a life and feel of Being	D
No phantom touch but the vital swirl	I2
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Says one who with the sad condoles	L
No delicate delight unrolls	L
But soon o'er it is flung a shadow	S
O feeblest folly of shallow souls	L
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A foolishness all overworn	N
Yet deadly as the frost of scorn	N
The serious mind is born of sorrow	S
On Love's brow rested a crown of thorn	N
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The shadowland is rift with bright	S
It did the deed of deeds incite	S
The Son of Man Jehovah's Servant	S
Through shadows passed to His crown of light	S
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There ever wakes an evil wraith	L
To test the courage of my faith	L
As life's dark passages are thridded	S
Alone Alone are the words it saith	L
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Ah no the wraith's an angel one	N
Whose face is always to the sun	N
A guardian of the heart's temptations	L
That saves by fear ere the course be run	N
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'Tis Father love each round of day	S
That shadows in a twilight grey	S
Or with Love's raven pinion covers	L
To tempt His child from itself away	S
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Far up the brook beyond the lin	N
I hear the impatient bluejay's din	N
While in the browning beech nut laden	N
The chipmunk gathers his harvest in	N
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Of all earth's trees exceeding fair	I2
Thee have I loved beyond compare	I2
Most human beech and felt thy spirit	S
Tremble to mine in the dusky air	I2
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The year is rounding up its task	D
And kingly gives to all that ask	D
Ay soon 'twill move in pomp so royal	I2
The world shall seem but a heavenly mask	D
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The full ripe year these maple hills	L
The pure October weather fills	L
Earth's veins so full of glowing crimson	N
That every leaf is ablush and thrills	L
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An expectation holds the days	L
And angel sunbeams throng the ways	L
The luminous skies grow close and tender	I2
And over all is a brooding haze	L
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'Tis summer's apotheosis	L
In flame of color burning kiss	L
As dew dies in the arms of sunlight	S
A world of beauty dissolved in bliss	L
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I dreamed I drew my parting breath	L
And fell in sinking swoon of death	L
To gulfs of utter night all chilly	L
While woven hands held me close beneath	L
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And then as thousand lights on shore	I2
The radiant forms I'd known before	I2
And growing sound of kindly voices	L
And flood of light through an open door	I2
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And lo at stern and prow there stands	L
Close veiled an angel winged the sands	L
Beneath the shallop's keel wake music	D
Folded am I by the pierc d hands	L
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The world's a train at speeding rate	S
An iron track its wheels await	S
We're all on board beyond is darkness	L
For God is only a name for Fate	S
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Thus mouths and blasphemes round about	S
An age in bondage to its doubt	S
Pray says the soul and God and Christ and	S
Freedom affirm with a ringing shout	S
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Believe in God believe in Me	L
Is freedom's voice like sounding sea	L
Its grand AMEN from Him that liveth	L
And holds of this and all worlds the key	L
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Hope's clear blue eye is open wide	S
And hath fair visions that abide	S
The white light of imagination	N
Glows on her brows as a heavenly bride	S
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Her face is lift to veil d things	L
To which she mounts as if with wings	L
The tents of night the sable future	I2
Are light as day with the song she sings	L
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As lithe as breadths of silvery rye	D
When wrestling winds its footing try	D
The spirit that with hope is gleaming	D
It must look up to the bending sky	D
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I see that power is not in art	S
Nor name nor place essential part	S
Of life's reality and glory	L
The strength of life is the health of heart	S
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If man but lived the pure white truth	L
As lives the lily tender ruth	L
The earth were Paradise to morrow	S
The Christ unveiled would be here in sooth	L
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The worldly wise he does not heed	S
What love sees true is true indeed	S
Immortal blooms this hardy blossom	M2
And deathless fruits in a deathless creed	S
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Unveiled as kinsman Love did seek	D
His wandering brethren Jew and Greek	D
That God made man in His own image	A
Did human life of our God fore speak	D
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Nor mask nor vesture was His mien	N
By man and angels wistly seen	N
Nor filmy veil nor apparition	N
God's human life as the Nazarene	N
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A man the Christ of God earth trod	S
And showed to man and worlds abroad	S
The holy good and sorrowing Father	I2
Atoning love and the heart of God	S
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O glorious light Thy limpid wave	Q2
Doth floor of living being pave	Q2
And life from out the caves of darkness	L
Waft to His sheltering architrave	Q2
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From void of night's lone pall of jet	S
Yellow and red and violet	S
Into a quivering beam were woven	N
His flying looms are aweaving yet	S
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If man and beast and tree and flower	I2
Unweave not Love's rich beauteous dower	I2
All Dana again earth darkles	L
Beneath His ceaseless and golden shower	I2
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Hail Mary honored of the race	L
Light of the Home its fount of grace	L
Is woman sister wife and mother	I2
Circling a towered and a heavenly place	L
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She sorrowed oft for Love's dear sake	D
She did the alabaster break	D
Like Him she knows of pain and anguish	M
And doth for life of death's cup partake	D
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Hope of the race since from Home's throne	N
Sweet Love's own gift and His alone	N
She giveth laws to coming ages	L
Builder from cope to foundation stone	N
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Frail Lucia of a mutual love	C2
Fair little wing d cooing dove	C2
Thou'st fluttered down from thy far dovecote	S
Awhile to nestle in earth's sweet grove	K2
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Would it were sweeter child for thee	L
Sweet as the silver breaking sea	L
When Indian summer broods upon it	S
Doth flute and fife to the golden tree	L
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Thine angel listens for thy breath	L
Whene'er he hears the wings of death	L
Looks in the Father's face and prayeth	L
For earth's sake spare her he softly saith	L
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O patriot ruler leader great	S
Master of labor builder of state	S
Man of the mart and king of commerce	L
His lips have spoken why longer wait	S
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One brotherhood one family	L
And love its great economy	L
The law of might is rule of evil	I2
The ethic lives in man's spirit free	L
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No borrowed laws of clay nor brute	S
Can e'er the freeman's spirit suit	S
He gave him choice Hark how he thunders	L
Through human strife nor is deaf nor mute	S
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The sword and spear and savage knife	P2
Wherewith the world is dowered of strife	P2
Are but as flotsam on the current	S
Of purpose vast of the Lord of Life	P2
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His rising winds and swelling surge	A
And underflowing tidal urge	A
Shall grind to dust these lethal spirits	L
And chant in triumph their sounding dirge	A
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Break way break way Fell Evil cease	L
O soldiers of the King's increase	L
O happy homes O happy peoples	L
O bless d wings of the ships of peace	L
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Love's inspirations of the lyre	I2
Upsway the heart's intense desire	I2
And rulership and kingdoms noble	I2
Are seen within the revealing fire	I2
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The frost of selfish blood gives place	L
To breath of life and salt of grace	L
New armor takes the cloistered spirit	S
And man becomes of a higher race	L
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Hark 'Tis an angel's throbbing wing	D
His messenger the age to bring	D
When crown of brotherhood upon him	M2
Each man shall be to his neighbor king	D
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Like oxeye daisies of the field	S
The stars their countless numbers yield	S
In this pure sky of depth unfathomed	S
Wherein they lay and so deep concealed	S
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Gardens of light environed fair	I2
With tremulous bloom of azure where	I2
All sweet star buds unroll their glories	L
In silent dews of etherial air	I2
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O Tiller of the fields of heaven	N
Gardener of space by day and even	N
The circling earth a once fair garden	N
Lifts up its face for Thy promise given	N
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The sovereign law of human life	P2
That Love ordained for man and wife	P2
For homes whence stream the generations	L
To joyous service and not to strife	P2
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This law gives rest and labor fit	S
God's air on surface and in pit	S
Wealth for the soul and mind and body	S
And fellowship with the race close knit	S
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O golden year when law and life	P2
Incorporate are as man and wife	P2
And wing d hosts of light are saying	D
Peace and goodwill on the earth are rife	P2
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Break into flower O garden fair	I2
Long hast thou known the Gardener's care	I2
The rain and dew from heaven have fallen	N
And sunbeams warm on thy bosom bare	I2
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The grains of seed all viewless fell	I2
Within the mellow soil to dwell	I2
Silent the fall as that of pebbles	L
Cast in oblivion's sunless well	I2
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List music ether fine up goes	L
From swelling seed and life's keen throes	L
O Earth thy riven breast shall blossom	M2
In Heaven's own beauty e'en as the rose	L
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Immortal Love immortal ruth	L
Thorn crowned and crowned with deathless youth	L
Source of pure faith and of right reason	N
Thou art Authority and the Truth	L
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Blest Bond of Being why and whence	L
In realm of thought in realm of sense	L
In world of human life and action	N
True Centre Thou and Circumference	L
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The sun and moon from spacious height	S
And stars may crumble into night	S
Ongoing Lord Eternal Order	I2
And Fount of Beauty and Love and Light	S

Theodore Harding Rand

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