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1874–1950

THE VEIL

Arthur Stringer

You have said that I sold My life for a song; Laid bare my heart That men might listen

And go their ways — My inchoate heart That I dare not plumb, That goes unbridled

To the depths of Hell, That sings in the sun To the brink of Heaven! I have tossed you the spindrift

Born of its fretting On its shallowest coast, But over the depths of it Bastioned in wonder

And silent with fear God sits with me!

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