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Sacrifice

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Those delicate wanderers,     The wind, the star, the cloud,     Ever before mine eyes,     As to an altar bowed,     Light and dew-laden airs     Offer in sacrifice.     The offerings arise:     Hazes of rainbow light,     Pure crystal, blue, and gold,     Through dreamland take their flight;     And 'mid the sacrifice     God moveth as of old.     In miracles of fire     He symbols forth his days;     In gleams of crystal light     Reveals what pure pathways     Lead to the soul's desire,     The silence of the height.

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