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Afterword

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Title:     Afterword
Author: Madison Julius Cawein [More Titles by Cawein]

What vague traditions do the golden eves.
What legends do the dawns
Inscribe in fire on Heaven's azure leaves,
The red sun colophons?

What ancient Stories do the waters verse?
What tales of war and love
Do winds within the Earth's vast house rehearse,
God's stars stand guard above?--

Would I could know them as they are expressed
In hue and melody!
And say, in words, the beauties they suggest.
Language their mystery!

And in one song magnificently rise,
The music of the spheres,
That more than marble should immortalize
My name in after years.




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Madison Julius Cawein's poem: Afterword

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