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The Altar - ZaunköniG - 10.06.2007 The Altar Alone, remote, nor witting where I went, I found an altar builded in a dream – A fiery place, whereof there was a gleam So swift, so searching, and so eloquent Of upward promise, that love’s murmur, blent With sorrow’s warning, gave but a supreme Unending impulse to that human stream Whose flood was all for the flame’s fury bent. Alas! I said, - the world is in the wrong. But the same quenchless fever of unrest That thrilled he foremost of that martyred throng Thrilled me, and I awoke... and was the same Bewildered insect plunging for the flame That burns, and must burn somehow for the best. |