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Revelation

 

 

Someone leaping from the rocks

Past me ran with wind-blown locks

Like a startled bright surmise

Visible to mortal eyes,

Just a cheek of frightened rose

That with sudden beauty glows,

Just a footstep like the wind

And a hurried glance behind,

And then nothing, as a thought

Escapes the mind ere it is caught.

Someone of the heavenly rout

From behind the veil ran out.

     

         A Tree

   

A tree beside the sandy river-beach

     Holds up its topmost boughs

Like fingers towards the skies they cannot reach,

     Earth-bound, heaven-amorous.

   

This is the soul of man. Body and brain

     Hungry for earth our heavenly flight detain.  

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