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He said: “What death leaves derelict is dead] |
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Poems and dramas of George Cabot Lodge | ||
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[VI
He said: “What death leaves derelict is dead]
He said: “What death leaves derelict is dead:Thus may we circumscribe mortality!
Yet in the last release, when all is free
To the free soul, who shall escape?” he said,
“Haste, lest we sleep, lest we be comforted,
Lest we forget! for we must learn to be
Visionaries of Truth's eternity,
Star-gazers constant and unsatiated.”
Thus we beheld him, steadfast and sublime,
Passing alone in eminent, strange ways
Of great adventure thro' the massive night;
Until at last, after prodigious days,
Outcast over the precipice of Time,
His eyes, triumphant, cried: “The Light! The Light!”
Poems and dramas of George Cabot Lodge | ||