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Cloister Thoughts

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(AT WESTMINSTER)     Within these long gray shadows many dead     Lie waiting: we wait with them. Do you believe     That at the last the threadbare soul will give     All his shifts over, and stand dishevelld,     Naked in truth? Then we shall hear it said,     "Ye two have waited long, daring to live     Grimly through days tormented; now reprieve     Awaiteth you with all these ancient dead!"     The slope sun letteth down thro' our dark bars     His ladder from the skies. Hand fast in hand,     With quiet hearts and footsteps quiet and slow,     Like children venturous in an unknown land     We will come to the fields whose flowers are stars,     And kneeling ask, "Lord, wilt Thou crown us now?"

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