BIB_ID
419426
Accession number
MA 4706.12
Display Date
Place not specified, undated
Credit line
Purchased, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm
Notes
The authorship of the poem is unknown and there is no evidence of publication.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
Being a poem of three 4-line stanzas as follows: "Here in poetry imagination / Clothes with flesh the skeleton of thought, / Restores the vision to its sightless orbits, / And armours it with darkness and a sword. / Here shines the lily in the shadowed valley, / Here stoops the falcon from her dazzling cliff, / Here drifts a feather from the stricken pigeon, / Time-hung between the blue and the abyss. / Here speaks the heart's auricular confession / To which unconscious lips accord a form; / Here kneels all knowledge for a benediction / Before the transubstantiated word."
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