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THE SOUL OF OSIRIS. 
Thus I beheld the truth :  ye are stars that give me light ; 
But I read you aright and learn I am walking in the 
night. 
Then I turned mine eyes away to the Light that is 
above you : 
The answering splendid Dawn arose, and I did not 
love you. 
I saw the breaking light, and the clouds fled far away : 
It was the resurrection of the Golden Star of Day. 
And now I live in Him ;  my heart may trace the years 
In drops of virginal blood and springs of virginal tears. 
I love you now again with an undivided song. 
Because I can never love you, I cannot do you wrong. 
I saw in your dying embraces the birth of a new 
embrace ; 
In the tears of your pitiful faces, another Holier Face. 
Unknowing it, undesiring, your lips have led me higher ; 
You have taught me purer songs that your souls did 
not desire ; 
You have led me through your chambers, where the 
secret bolt was drawn, 
To the chambers of the Highest and the secrets of the 
Dawn ! 
You have brought me to command you, and not to be 
denied ; 
You have taught me in perfection to be unsatisfied ; 
You have taught me midnight vigils, when you smiled 
in amorous sleep ; 
You have even taught a man the woman’s way to weep. 
So, even as you helped me, blindly, against your will,