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PHILOSOPHY.

"God needs no christening,"
  Pantheist mutters,
  "Love opens shutters
On heaven's glistening,
Flesh, key-hole listening,
  Hear what God utters" . . .
  Yes, but God stutters.



PHILOCLEA IN THE FOREST.


I.

'Twas I that leaned to Amoret
With: "What if the briars have tangled Time,
Till, lost in the wood-ways, he quite forget
How plaintive in cities at midnight sounds the chime
Of bells slow-dying from discord to the hush whence they rose and met?