Panama and Other Poems Narrative and Occasional By Stephen Phillips: With a Frontispiece by Joseph Pennell |
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REVENGE FOR RHEIMS
Thou Permanence amid all things that pass!
Unchanging thought amid the drift of change;
Thou Rally of the Soul in days of dross.
How art Thou fallen!
Unchanging thought amid the drift of change;
Thou Rally of the Soul in days of dross.
How art Thou fallen!
Thou Prayer, that ever-rising, yet remained,
That for seven hundred years didst sing and soar,
Spirit with wings outspread tip-toe on earth,
How art Thou fallen!
That for seven hundred years didst sing and soar,
Spirit with wings outspread tip-toe on earth,
How art Thou fallen!
Thou Vision frozen, and Thou Sigh transfixed;
Thou Camp of dreams, Thou Fort of faith unstormed,
Time-worn, yet wearying t'ward Eternity,
How art Thou fallen!
Thou Camp of dreams, Thou Fort of faith unstormed,
Time-worn, yet wearying t'ward Eternity,
How art Thou fallen!
Thou wast to France her Inspiration old,
Thou hadst for ivy earliest memories;
From Thee her Knights, her Angels long looked down;
How art Thou fallen!
Thou hadst for ivy earliest memories;
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How art Thou fallen!
What vengeance for Thy ruin shall she hurl?
O, be that vengeance that the ruin stand,
And only Choirs for ever unrestored!
Ever unfallen!
O, be that vengeance that the ruin stand,
And only Choirs for ever unrestored!
Ever unfallen!
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