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URIEL (IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Uriel, you that in the ageless sun
Last Line: Your f
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Moody, William Vaughn (1853-1917)


I

Uriel, you that in the ageless sun
Sit in the awful silences of light,
Singing of vision hid from human sight, --
Prometheus, beautiful rebellious one!
And you, Deucalion,
For whose blind seed was brought the illuming spark,
Are you not gathered, now his day is done,
Beside the brink of that relentless dark --
The dark where your dear singer's ghost is gone?


II

Imagined beings, who majestic blend
Your f




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