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The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Buchanan

In Two Volumes. With a Portrait

Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841-1901)

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I.

Idyls and Legends of Inverburn.

Miscellaneous Poems.

North Coast, and other Poems.

Sonnets WRITTEN BY LOCH CORUISK, ISLE OF SKYE.

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The Book of Orm.

INSCRIPTION. To F. W. C.

THE BOOK OF THE VISIONS SEEN BY ORM THE CELT.

I.

I. FIRST SONG OF THE VEIL.

II.

II. THE MAN AND THE SHADOW.

III.

III. SONGS OF CORRUPTION.

III.

III. Soul and Flesh.

IV.

IV. THE SOUL AND THE DWELLING.

V.

V. SONGS OF SEEKING.

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VI.

VI. THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL.

I.

I. Orm's Vision.

II.

II. The Face and the World.

III.

III. Orm's Awakening.

VII.

VII. THE DEVIL'S MYSTICS.

VIII.

VIII. THE VISION OF THE MAN ACCURST.

Political Mystics.

Songs of the Terrible Year.

Saint Abe and his Seven Wives.

II.

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Thou who the Face Divine wouldst see,
Think,—couldst thou bear the sight, and be?
O waves of life and thought and dream,
Darkening in one mysterious Stream,
Flow on, flow loudly; nor become
A glassy Mirror sad and dumb,
Whereon for evermore might shine
The dread peace of the Face Divine!—
Children of earth whose spirits fail,
Beware the Lifting of the Veil!