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ORION
UR earth is full of crouching things, and men with shadowed eyes,
Who love their fears and fear their loves, and smother light with lies.
They miss all valiant loveliness with hate of pain and scars—
Look up, ye sorry earth-born, to the message of the stars!
Coronis sings of glory, and deep Sirius of faith,
The Pleiades are glamoury, Virgo’s a silver wraith.
From his far height Polaris sends a grave and glorious call—
But the Southern knight Orion is the greatest of them all!
Orion, great Orion, with his lordly lifted hand;
He calls across the shimmering blue to those who understand.
His messages are chivalry, and gallantry, and fire,
He is the starry soldier, and the lover of the lyre.
‘Oh, little comrade, courage now, and leave your darkling fear;
Your tiny world is rolling still, and you and I are here;
Yea, we will still be laughing when your tiny world is gone,
For you and I are stuff that’s made of white fire and gold dawn.”
Our earth is woeful full of things that should not dare to be,
And yet there is an open way to beauty high and free;
Oh, seek for valiant loveliness, nor shrink at gallant scars—
Look up, ye blind and fearful, to the glory of the stars!
—F.M.L.
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ETERNITY
9[HERE will be a time when you will climb
JL The stairs no more;
There will be a day, when you will say,
I cannot rise.
That time must come, whate’er is done,
The body is laid down
We close the eyes and hear good-byes,
The world is gone.
Beyond that veil, past all travail,
We cannot see.
And so through strife, which is our life,
We come to Thee.
—E.N.B.
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