Beautys Sacrice


O RADIANT minstrel of my heart

Sing from your shadow-lonely bower,

Where in white plenitudes apart

Your songs are wed to the timeless Hour.


The rst glimpses of a new-born

Laugh of earth-ames in the green wood,

Birds bringing from the depths of dawn

Music of God-beatitude;


Natures prophetic scrolls of love

Lighting the dome of a dark height,

Cloud-foam-wrapt candles above

On the altar of the Innite;


Still distances of snowy elds

On undulating sapphire space

And the moon-aureoled night that builds

A silence of weird pale blue rays


Are songs cast by the magic breath

Of Beauty, are a sacrice

Offered, a lustrous-gleaming wreath

In her gold fame of memories.


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