FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.
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Iridescent splendours: gloom—would else confound me—
Barriered off and banished far—bright-edged the blackest shroud!
Barriered off and banished far—bright-edged the blackest shroud!
Thronging through the cloud-rift, whose are they, the faces
Faint revealed yet sure divined, the famous ones of old?
"What"—they smile—"our names, our deeds so soon erases
Time upon his tablet where Life's glory lies enrolled?
Faint revealed yet sure divined, the famous ones of old?
"What"—they smile—"our names, our deeds so soon erases
Time upon his tablet where Life's glory lies enrolled?
"Was it for mere fool's-play, make-believe and mumming,
So we battled it like men, not boylike sulked or whined?
So we battled it like men, not boylike sulked or whined?
