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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

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How God in the beginning drew
Over his face the Veil of blue,
Wherefore no soul of mortal race
Hath ever look'd upon the Face;
Children of earth whose spirits fail
Heark to the First Song of the Veil.