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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVOCATION OF SILENCE, by RICHARD FLECKNOE
First Line: Still-born silence! Thou that art
Last Line: Seize this maid, and strike her dumb.
Variant Title(s): Silence Invoked
Subject(s): Silence
First Line: Still-born silence! Thou that art
Last Line: Seize this maid, and strike her dumb.
Variant Title(s): Silence Invoked
Subject(s): Silence
Stillborn Silence, thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart;
Offspring of a heavenly kind,
Frost o' the mouth and thaw o' the mind;
Secrecy's confident, and he
Who makes religion mystery;
Admiration's speakingest tongue, --
Leave thy desert shades among
Reverend hermits' hallowed cells,
Where retiredest Devotion dwells;
With thy enthusiasms come,
Seize this maid, and strike her dumb.
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