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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.

VI.

VI. THE LIFTING OF THE VEIL.

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VII.

VII. THE DEVIL'S MYSTICS.

I.

I. The Inscription Without.

II.

II. The Tree of Life.

III.

III. The Seeds.

IV.

IV. Fire and Water; or, a Voice of the Flesh.

V.

VI.

VI. The Philosophers.

VII.

VII. The Devil's Prayer.

VIII.

VIII. Homunculus; or, the Song of Deicides.

IX.

X.

X. Hermaphroditus.

XI.

XII.

XII. His Prayer.

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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VII. The Devil's Prayer.

Father which art in Heaven,—not here below;
Be Thy name hallowëd, in that place of worth;
And till Thy Kingdom cometh, and we know,
Be Thy will done more tenderly on Earth;
Since we must live—give us this day our bread;
Forgive our stumblings—since Thou mad'st us blind;
If we offend Thee, Sire, at least forgive
As tenderly as we forgive our kind;—
Spare us temptation,—human or divine;
Deliver us from evil, now and then;
The Kingdom, Power, and Glory all are Thine
For ever and for evermore. Amen.