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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECHOES, LONG AFTER, by JAMES HOWARD FLOWER
First Line: I hear a voice no other man can hear
Last Line: Nor spill devotion at a fairer shrine.
Subject(s): Past
First Line: I hear a voice no other man can hear
Last Line: Nor spill devotion at a fairer shrine.
Subject(s): Past
I hear a Voice no other man can hear,
Blown o'er these thrice three-hundred leagues of land:
Its import what the common stander-near
Would ridicule if he could understand;
For, from the prudent present world withdrawn,
Self-tranced, I hearken that which bids me flee
The stubborn heartless fact, insist upon
The Beauty of wild Impossibility!
I haunt a Past where I no more have part,
Am faithful to a visionary thing,—
The Saint is gone, but still the tapers shine!—
Kneel to a hopeless Hope,—I cannot cling
To holier altar than Her heavenly heart,
Nor spill devotion at a fairer shrine.
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