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The Bridge of Fire
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- High on the bridge of Heaven whose Eastern bars
- Exclude the interchange of Night and Day,
- Robed with faint seas and crowned with quiet stars
- All great Gods dwell to whom men prayed or pray.
- No winter chills, no fear or fever mars
- Their grand and timeless hours of pomp and play ;
- Some drive about the Rim wind-golden cars
- Or, shouting, laugh Eternity away.
- The daughters of their pride,
- Moon-pale, blue-water-eyed,
- Their flame-white bodies pearled with falling spray,
- Send all their dark hair streaming
- Down where the worlds lie gleaming,
- And draw their mighty lovers close and say :
- " Come over by the Stream : one hears
- The speech of Nations broken in the chant of Spheres."
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