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Invocation

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Come down from heaven to meet me when my breath     Chokes, and through drumming shafts of stifling death     I stumble toward escape, to find the door     Opening on morn where I may breathe once more     Clear cock-crow airs across some valley dim     With whispering trees. While dawn along the rim     Of night's horizon flows in lakes of fire,     Come down from heaven's bright hill, my song's desire.     Belov'd and faithful, teach my soul to wake     In glades deep-ranked with flowers that gleam and shake     And flock your paths with wonder. In your gaze     Show me the vanquished vigil of my days.     Mute in that golden silence hung with green,     Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes     Remembrance of all beauty that has been,     And stillness from the pools of Paradise.

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