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Desolation - ZaunköniG - 22.05.2007 Desolation Think ye the desolate must live apart, By solemn vows to convent-walls confined? Ah! no; with men may dwell the cloistered heart, And in a crowd the isolated mind: Tearless behind the prison-bars of fate, The world sees not how desolate they stand, Gazing so fondly through the iron grate Upon the promised yet forbidden land; Patience, the shrine to which their bleeding feet Day after day in voiceless penance turn; Silence, the holy cell and calm retreat, In which unseem their meek devotions burn: Life is to them a vigil, which none share, Theire hopes a sacrifice, their love a prayer. |