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The fiery gate which stands above the stars - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"

Shuts the red cemeteries of hell with seven burning bars - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"

Until it dropped into the blackest hell - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"

And filled each black and gaping gorge - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of Divine Compassion"

Pledge the cup and break the bread - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Ballad of the Quick and Dead"

A love that through the constellations moved - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Bride's Song"

He faints before the sword of night - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Bride's Song"

And bake the world with light - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Counsel of Gilgamesh"

And waste their years in seeking - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Counsel of Gilgamesh"

That ride to the tavern at dawning - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Deuced Moral Lay"

One star upon the desert of the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

One song upon the silences of night - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Upon the tossing of the stream, one light - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

A dim undying hearth for loves that roam - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Dim planets hung above the trembling trees - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Saw two wandering stars fall through the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Shall crash out of the ruin of the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

When the last constellations faint and fall - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

When the last planets burst in fiery foam - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

The worn way-weary comets have come home - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

When past and present and the future flee - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Immortality"

Drop slowly one by one into the dark - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

And whispers the Last Gospel through - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

In my eyes a flame of fire, in my heart a sword - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

And pull the clouds to pieces for their play - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The babes for whom dark Rachael's head is bowed - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

These are the fruit of hundredfold desires - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Ten thousand dreams begot this laughing band - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

While I plunge on through my dead hopes below - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

When lost were course and goal - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

When hope had fled and faith had died - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

And found a refuge in its bitter hour - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Fierce to keep the wolves of thought at bay - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The last redemption of a long, long sleep - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Let my shuddering memories come to salute him - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The thunder of his cry went before me, fierce and far - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

See mirrored there all the white and hungry blaze - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Trumps of doom and drums of fate - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

A crown of withered bays and laurels brown - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The broken sword of his own most solemn word - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Bring dreams to deck thine obsequies - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Lord of the dancing April days of earth - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

When the sour chills of Autumn winds are rife - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Of those who fear the clutch of Nothingness - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The guardian of new-kindled fires - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The shadows of the dropping night - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

The wastes of lonely moonless seas - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Those who in the gulfs of darkness fight - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Last Gospel"

Hope knows no hindrance but clipped wings - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Optimist"

The flowering change from dark to light - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Optimist"

Let me hail death as a conqueror - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

Let me run to meet the future - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

With forgiving laughter make my farewells - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

Then plunge on without vain regrets - Sheila Kaye-Smith "A Prayer"

That no third day's dawn shall break - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Resurrection"

Fierce the whirlwind, wild the wave - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Resurrection"

The crags and the abysses of that most lonely way - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

Among the dews and lilies of the Eternal May - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

Learned the secrets and signs of all the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

To overturn the doctrines that Martin Luther taught - Sheila Kaye-Smith "The Song of Jacob Boehme"

I talk to owls and crows, hear voices from the sky - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Quickly sprouting toadstools in an evil yellow row - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

The London glare climbs upward to make the sad skies glow - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Through the mingled dusk and dazzle - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Tear all burning through the twilight - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"

Kindling the London darkness with youth's eternal fires - Sheila Kaye-Smith "Willow's Forge"


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