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The World’s Tragedy
The World’s Tragedy (1910), PDF p. 90
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THE RED STAR.
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I came from very far
Led by that strange red star
At noon that fadeth now
Dim on the snow-crowned brow
Of royal Caucasus,
A mystical portent
Of some obscure event
Darkly miraculous
Written below the West
In Fate’s dark palimpsest ;
Obscure — the sun to eclipse !
I fed my flaming lips
Upon the limbs of slaves,
Great Nubian girls that bled
Upon the sands — so laves
The sun his fire in cloud
When the sea glows glassy red
At the buffet of the wind
On its cheek all wrinkle-lined.
Ah ! thou Lord God ! thus thrice
I made thy sacrifice.
Still thou art dumb,
Though I am duly come
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