. Crisis. vid limbs aloft; Upward I strove: The Face, the Face; Onward I reeled: The Pace, the Face! To Beauty wonderful as sudden death Or horror horrible as endless life—? Up! Up! the blood-built way (Shadow grow vaster! Terror come faster!) UjD! Up to the blazing blackness Of one veiled face And endless folding and unfolding. Rolling and unrolling of Almighty wings: The last step stood! The last dim cry of pain Fluttered across the stars— And then— AVings, wings, triumphant and lowering, waxing and waning,Swinging and swaying, twirling and and screaming, .s

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. Crisis. vid limbs aloft; Upward I strove: The Face, the Face; Onward I reeled: The Pace, the Face! To Beauty wonderful as sudden death Or horror horrible as endless life—? Up! Up! the blood-built way (Shadow grow vaster! Terror come faster!) UjD! Up to the blazing blackness Of one veiled face And endless folding and unfolding. Rolling and unrolling of Almighty wings: The last step stood! The last dim cry of pain Fluttered across the stars— And then— AVings, wings, triumphant and lowering, waxing and waning,Swinging and swaying, twirling and and screaming, .streaming and and sweeping and shading and flaming—Wings, wings, eternal wings,Til the hot red bloodFlood fleeing flood,Thundered thro Heaven and mine earsWhile all across a purple skyThe last vast pinionTrembled to unfold. I rose upon the Mountain of the Moon; I felt the blazing glory of the Sun. I heard the Song of Children crying Free! I saw the Face of Freedom— And I

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