1898 · CLOSE READING
Songs of the Spirit
Songs of the Spirit (1898), PDF p. 101
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VESPERS.
THE incense steams before the Christ,
It wraps His feet with grey,
A perfumed melancholy mist,
Tears sacred from the day ;
And awe, a holiness, I wist,
More sweet than man may say.
I bend my head to kiss the brow,
Scarred and serene and wide,
The bosom and the loin-cloth now
And where the blood has dried,
The blood whose purple tide doth flow
From out the smitten side.
The fragrance of his skin begets
Desire of holy things ;
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