Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLOISTER HYMN, by EMILY HANSON OBEAR


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CLOISTER HYMN, by                    
First Line: I heard them talk about this changing day
Last Line: "yesterday, now, forever -- I am god."
Subject(s): Voices


I heard them talk about this changing day,
A strange new world, and of what way to take
When forts we used to hold secure forsake
Their banner. With a questioning dismay
I left the searching group and stole away
Where rays through glowing crimson windows make
A light all quick with blood of martyr's stake
Against the arched and chiseled stone of gray.
That afternoon I saw a cloister old,
Brought from the mother-world to guide the new
By a dreamer who makes men of lifeless sod.
I listened while the carven figures told
Of ageless Voice that spoke as aeons grew:
"Yesterday, now, forever -- I am God."





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