1898 · CLOSE READING
Songs of the Spirit
Songs of the Spirit (1898), PDF p. 109
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ASTROLOGY.
A LONELY spirit seeks the midnight hour,
When souls have power
To cast away one moment bonds of clay,
And touch the day
With pallid wistful lips beyond the earth,
And bring to birth
New thoughts with which life long has travailed ;
As if one dead
Should rise and utter secrets of the tomb,
And from hell’s womb
Or heaven’s breast bring all the load of fears,
Toils of long years,
Sorrows of life and agonies of death,
Hard caught-up breath,
The labouring hands of love, the cheeks of
shame,
The gloomy flame
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