Stories in Verse/Blanche/Chapter 3

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Stories in Verse (1869)
by Henry Abbey
Blanche
Chapter III: Odyle
187904Stories in VerseBlanche
Chapter III: Odyle
1869Henry Abbey


III.

ODYLE.

We know that they are often near
Of whom we think, of whom we talk,
Though we have missed them many a year,
And lost them from our daily walk.

Some strange clairvoyance dwells in all,
And webs the souls of human kind.
I would that I could learn its thrall,
And know the power of mind on mind.

I then might quickly use the sense,
To find where one I worship dwells,
If in the city, or if thence
Among the breeze-rung lily bells.