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The
Iceberg and Other Poems
by
Charles G.D. Roberts
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RE-BIRTH
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I HAD
stumbled up thro’ Time from the slime to the
heights,
Then fallen into the stillness
of the tomb.
For an age I had lain in the pulseless, senseless
dark,
I had swooned in the darkness
of the tomb.
I had slept for an age without a dream or stir
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Till
a voice came, troubling the pools of sleep.
From the long-forgotten bones, the immemorial dust,
I fled up from the smother
of my sleep.
A naked soul, I bathed in the light ineffable,
I floated in the ecstasy
of light.
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Yet
I ached with desire for a dream I could not grasp,
And I struggled to pierce
beyond the light.
As the light had been a veil I swam through the
veil
And sank through shadows
to a blissful gloom.
And the ache of my desire was sweetly assuaged
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I sheathed me blindly in the gloom.
In my heart, as it seemed, I heard a craving,
faint cry.
I was darkly aware of
moving warmth.
I thirsted, and my groping thirst was satisfied;
And I slumbered, wrapt
and folded in the warmth.
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Once again was I snared in the kindly flesh of man;
The kind flesh closed away
my sight.
But before the mists of temporal forgetting shut
me in
I had seen, far off, the
Vision and the Height. |
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