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To My Mother

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Once more the Christian festival is near,     And I, for whom each day repeats all days     Continuously in ecstasy of praise,     Loves birthday lasting through the unending year,     Am dreaming how the spirit draws me sheer     From farthest wandering in the illusive maze     To that white centre whose creative blaze     Spun me aloft and sets me tremulous here.     And since all heaven is figured in my heart,     As in a dewdrop ere it change and live     There shines the glory of the eternal dome,     Mother, to you the showering meteors dart     Of free affection, fancies fugitive,     And flare, with increasing heat and splendour, home.

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