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BANNERS OF FLAME, by                    
First Line: Though love may pass in the murky
Last Line: And one, a lurid flame to haunt the night.)
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Passion


Though Love may pass in the murky shadow of rain
With face averted -- mute -- unheralded -- fleet --
We sense invisible banners and tremble at his feet.
If the lusty lord of passion with languorous train
Of devotees shall rouse the pulse, we leap
To hail his flying emblem of puerile jest.
(One brings a flame to comfort the human breast,
And one a flame to consume the power we keep.)
They smile, for we surrender though we surmise
How soon the bright horizon may claim their thought,
While we, bereft and chill, shall cower unsought
And watch their banners flare in other eyes.
(One holds a flame conjuring heaven to sight,
And one, a lurid flame to haunt the night.)





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