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Poems and dramas of George Cabot Lodge

Lodge, George Cabot (1873-1909)

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THE GREAT ADVENTURE

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[I Pride, power and substance of created things]

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[III Life gives the pass-key of his treasure-house]

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[IV Unspeakable are the felicities]

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[V We trod into the starlight, into the night]

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[VI Twilight of Truth's unfettered wanderings]

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VII TUCKANUCK

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[VIII Powerful, patient, vast serenity ]

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[IX Shall we return, return once more and stand ]

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[X There may we learn at daybreak and nightfall, ]

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[XI We loved too perfectly for praise ]

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[XII We loved the illimitable night ]

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[XIII We found a symbol and significance ]

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[XIV How often in the tranquil evenings ]

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[XV O South-wind, silvered by the crescent moon ]

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[XVI In some clear, crystalline, calm-murmuring ]

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[XX In Time's cathedral Memory, like a ghost]

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[XXI O Memory, Mistress of the heart's despair]

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[XXII. Days that have been and nevermore shall be]

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XXIII QUESTIONS

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[XXV Thus were our lives resolved! “The Dawn,” we said]

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THE SOUL'S INHERITANCE AND OTHER POEMS

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TUCKANUCK

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Take me away to the sea, O carry me
Down to the sea where there is space and light,
Where stars abound in the gigantic night,
Where soul and flesh are unconstrained and free!
Carry me back! for I once more would see
The midnight sky's moon-silvered azurite,
The calm lagoon at noonday wide and white,—
Carry me down! O take me to the sea!
O take me hence to the innumerable
Deep-rumouring waters! Let me feel the core
Of life reëcho like a chambered shell
The voice and motion of the immensity!
Carry me back!—O Soul, from Life's dark shore
Take me away forever to the Sea!