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Sagas
of Vaster Britain: Poems of the Race, the Empire and
the Divinity of Man
by
William Wilfred Campbell
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SPIRIT
of fire and snow and heart all dew,
Child of the midnight’s
glory and the stars,
Whose mad, sweet chanting
smote to heaven’s bars:—
Brother ethereal to that glorious few
Who from earth’s beauty song’s high
triumphs drew;—
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Beyond the earthy, like
some paler Mars,
Winging above thine age’s
petty jars,
Thy song to heaven meteor-like out-flew.
First
came one great in love’s majestic calm,
The wizard singer of
all singing men;
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Then
he who sang in high immortal psalm
That greatest of all love’s
great, sad rebels. Then
Thou camest, angel of the starry lyre!
Raining the dusk with melody of fire.
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