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A DRAMA OF EXILE.
While, renewed by new evangels, Soul-consummated, made glorious, Ye shall brighten past the angels— Ye shall kneel to Christ victorious; And the rays around His feet, beneath your sobbing lips, shall tremble. [The phantastic vision has all passed; the earth-zodiac has broken like a belt, and dissolved from the desert. The Earth Spirits vanish; and the stars shine out above, bright and mild.
CHORUS OF INVISIBLE ANGELS,
While Adam and Eve advance into the desert, hand in hand.
Hear our heavenly promise, Through your mortal passion! Love, ye shall have from us, In a pure relation! As a fish or bird Swims or flies, if moving, We, unseen, are heard To live on by loving. Far above the glances Of your eager eyes, Listen! we are loving! Listen, through man's ignorances— Listen, through God's mysteries— Listen down the heart of things, Ye shall hear our mystic wings Rustle with our loving! Through the opal door, Listen evermore How we live by loving. First semichorus. When your bodies, therefore, Lie in grave or goal, Softly will we care for Each enfranchised soul!
