1901 · CLOSE READING
The Soul of Osiris
The Soul of Osiris (1901), PDF p. 111
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THE HOLY PLACE.
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“ THE ROSE AND THE CROSS.”
UT of the seething cauldron of my woes,
Where sweets and salt and bitterness I flung ;
Where charmed music gathered from my tongue,
And where I chained strange archipelagoes
Of fallen stars ; where fiery passion flows
A curious bitumen ; where among
The glowing medley moved the tune unsung
Of perfect love : thence grew the Mystic Rose.
Its myriad petals of divided light ;
Its leaves of the most radiant emerald ;
Its heart of fire like rubies. At the sight
I lifted up my heart to God and called :
How shall I pluck this dream of my desire ?
And lo ! there shaped itself the Cross of Fire !
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