. Lyrics on freedom, love and death . 136. A DELPHI. Fraternal love and truth and honor gone ?All faith divorced from life ? If this be soMans star sinks westering, and the world he walks-Untouched of any ray of future hope,Past all redemption, dead indeed in sin,Bearing the burden of the primal on to ruin, and her ancient dusk—Wheels through the darkness to her final time !But is this so ? I think it were in meThe veriest heresy to hold it I, not seeking, stumble once, evn onceIn a whole lifetime, on a love like thatOf Edgar, and of Albert Henderson—A love beyond the love

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. Lyrics on freedom, love and death . 136. A DELPHI. Fraternal love and truth and honor gone ?All faith divorced from life ? If this be soMans star sinks westering, and the world he walks-Untouched of any ray of future hope,Past all redemption, dead indeed in sin,Bearing the burden of the primal on to ruin, and her ancient dusk—Wheels through the darkness to her final time !But is this so ? I think it were in meThe veriest heresy to hold it I, not seeking, stumble once, evn onceIn a whole lifetime, on a love like thatOf Edgar, and of Albert Henderson—A love beyond the love of womans love,A love beyond the love of woman far. 137 Adelphi. Two brothers, one is living still—from him I heard the story,—Edgar Henderson, And Albert, older by a year or two, Loved one, and the same maiden, Minna Vane, The toast, and boast of all the country round. As fair as starlight, sweet as summer morn In tropic isles, and pure and good withal. She was their cousin, and from infancy Had dwelt beside them, mingled in thei

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