Some songs and verses . here and there, where fluffy clouds hung down,Their rosy folds caught and pinned back by shafts of golden while I gazed the clouds grew brighter, pink and great warm sun arose, and lo! a out the gleaming mist a sea was born, a dimpled, smiling sea,Reflecting in its flashing curves the roseate sky;Then as the level beams of sunlight drankThe mist away, it rolled an ocean deep, profound, beneath mygaze. 91 92 F at i t K The glistening sands stretched far away, all white and great grey gull flew screaming overhead, and as he passedA fe
Some songs and verses . here and there, where fluffy clouds hung down,Their rosy folds caught and pinned back by shafts of golden while I gazed the clouds grew brighter, pink and great warm sun arose, and lo! a out the gleaming mist a sea was born, a dimpled, smiling sea,Reflecting in its flashing curves the roseate sky;Then as the level beams of sunlight drankThe mist away, it rolled an ocean deep, profound, beneath mygaze. 91 92 F at i t K The glistening sands stretched far away, all white and great grey gull flew screaming overhead, and as he passedA feather floated down. I picked it up. The tiny, filmy thingSeemed so absurd a shield against the flerce the sweeping seas; yet by its power he soared into the grew ashamed; the gulPs white wing had brushed from out my soulThe doubting mists, and let Gods sunlight in. My faith was born,And on its wings my soul too soared into the sky with prayer of praiseTo Him who had created and still cherished A FABLE jO high her soul soared on Olympian heightsShe drean^ed herself a goddess, and she builtA shrine. One day a god looked in and straightShe opened wide the doorway of her shrineAnd bade him enter there and reign. She built an altar to him and she gave The royal sceptre of her womans heart Into his hands. Upon his brow she placed The kiss of love which crowned him all her king. Then like a loyal subject offered she The richest treasures of her willing mind. For him her fingers, love-inspired, wrought out From senseless strings most subtle harmonies. Her voice caught melody from out her heart. Which sang within her like a mating-bird. Her tongue dropped into rythm and soft speech With which to rouse, or soothe, or comfort him. One day came cruel Fate. That goddess stern Flashed on the shrine the fearful light Of her infernal mirror men call knowledge, 93 94 A F a. b 1 e And she, who faithfully had loved, Beheld her god a thing abased, all smirched With stain
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