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Chartres

...free,
 While from the triple portals, with grave eyes,
Tranquil, and fixed upon eternity,
 The cloud of witnesses still testifies.

II

The crimson panes like blood-drops stigmatise
 The western floor. The aisles are mute and cold.
A rigid fetich in her robe of gold,
 The Virgin of the Pillar, with blank eyes,
Enthroned beneath her votive canopies,
 Gathers a meagre remnant to her fold.
The rest is solitude; the church, grown old,
 Stands stark and grey beneath the burning sk...Read more of this...
by Wharton, Edith


Paradise Lost: Book 01

...wers 
Matchless, but with th' Almighth!--and that strife 
Was not inglorious, though th' event was dire, 
As this place testifies, and this dire change, 
Hateful to utter. But what power of mind, 
Forseeing or presaging, from the depth 
Of knowledge past or present, could have feared 
How such united force of gods, how such 
As stood like these, could ever know repulse? 
For who can yet believe, though after loss, 
That all these puissant legions, whose exile 
Hath emptied He...Read more of this...
by Milton, John

Yes the Dead Speak to Us

...e a sheet of paper shivers, in a dusty corner shivers with the dry inkdrops of the Dead, the signed names.
Here the ink testifies, here we find the say-so, here we learn the layout, now we know where the cities and farms belong.
Dead white men and dead red men tested each other with shot and knives: they twisted each others’ necks: land was yours if you took and kept it.

How are the heads the rain seeps in, the rain-washed knuckles in sod and gumbo?

Where the sheets of pape...Read more of this...
by Sandburg, Carl

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