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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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[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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XIX EGYPT

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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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XIX
EGYPT

Reliquary Time's vicissitude,
Proof of persistent change, and prophecy,—
Rapt in thy myths and monuments I see
Visions that throng thy soundless solitude:
The pageant of a rumouring multitude,
The celebration and the mystery
Of occult and august Divinity
Sculptured in hieratic attitude;—
Till I discern across the shadow of years
The self-same tragic life and death of men,
The passion and the pathos and the tears,
The love and labour of humanity:
And know at last, tho' Time's abysmal sea
Divide us, yet we are not alien!