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Shall we return, return once more and stand
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Shall we return, return once more and standThere where at sunset we may thrill to see
The skies flash kindling like the noontide sea,
The birds pass seaward from the darkling land?
Shall we return and on the stainless sand
Hear, as of old, the waves' wild minstrelsy,
And feel once more the heart within us free,
The soul within us strong to understand?—
We shall return! and in the silence find
Ever the nameless peace, the calm delight,
The spacious meditations of the mind,
Wherein, dilate with Truth's unfailing breath,
Our souls may witness Life's immortal light
Fill the dark chambers of the House of Death.
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