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(I.)

Of Ulysses, Homer's Troy And The Wrathful Gods

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.

Eons unguessed, ere I shall see the crest
  Of the blue towers, - love's high citadels
Hath reared, utterably beautiful
Unutterably holy, truth's infinite light.

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.

Thy mystic news from out the Invisible  
   Would save all men, were they content to dwell
In the lowly station, proud to share the power
That forms the world in secret hour by hour.

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.

I have not heard any man yet born
  Unlocked in verse such cruel agony
Great gusts of song, raw as uptorn
Thou grim and gruesome master of the sea.

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.
  
Set thee upon some mountain promontory
  With no companion but that ancient story
In the mirror of Princes,
And thou shalt find thy throne restored to thee.

I, who am of the ancient tribe of trees
  Climb slowly.
  
(II.)

Duality

Thy day is filled with echoes of olden time,
   Shadows of pain. I watch the skylark climb
Into the sun above the golden grain.

One thou lovest for that he wrote his dream
In blood, then died. True joy is it doth gleam
Even among the sweet flowers of summer tide.

Yet thou and I are he that now doth write,
Of ancient seed deep-rooted, dark and light,
Sheltering good and evil at their need.

(III.)

A Little Poem

A little poem a dark soul brought forth
  One hour of loneliness and misery;
Yet round it swung the keen stars of the north,
And deep within it moaned a troubled sea.

The joy'est trust of those eternal fires,
And all the calm those billows yearned unto,
Were in that poem, in that soul's desires,
And in the Heart that flashed that vision through.


R.J. Lindley, April, 3rd, 1973
(Within the shadows of a youthful mind's 
mysterious desires and radiant glow)...
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