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| Poetry | ||||||||||||
| Joseph Mary Plunkett | ||||||||||||
| The Living Temple | ||||||||||||
| O Covenant! O Temple! O frail pride Of God's high glory! Set your snowy feet On the Red Mountain, while pinions beat Of proximate apocolypse. Uncried Haloos of havoc, prophcies denied Fulfilment till the Dawn of Wonder, fleet In songs precursive down the glittering street Where dripped the blood from wounded brows and side. And you must walk the mountain tops where rode Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, when the stars Fell from their places, and where Satan strode To make his leap. Now bend the cracking spars Athwart the mast of the world - and five deep scars From that strong Cross call you to their abode. |
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