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The Spiritual Dawn

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When white and ruby dawn among the rakes     Breaks in, she's with the harrying Ideal,     And by some strange retributive appeal     Within the sleepy brute, an angel wakes.     The perfect blue of Spiritual Skies     For the lost man who dreams and suffers, this     Pierces him, fascinates like the abyss.     And so, dear Goddess, lucid, pure and wise,     Over debris the orgies leave behind     Your memory, more rosy, more divine     Constantly flickers in my vision's sight.     The sun has blackened candles of the night;     Your phantom does the same, o conquering one,     Resplendent soul, of the immortal sun!

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