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First Line: My spirit slips away at night
Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile.
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


My spirit slips away at night,
While still my body slumbers here,
And travels with the speed of light
Directly to the spirit-sphere,
That wonderful mysterious land,
So far away, so near at hand.

It reckons not the leagues of air,
Nor queries aught of time or place;
A wish, -- and lo, the soul is where
It would be, in the depths of space;
For never in that spirit-sphere
Is fast or slow, or far or near.

How sweet the memories which, at dawn,
I find imprinted on my brain, --
Of speech with loved ones, long since gone,
And old-time comrades, found again, --
All treasures, which my soul by night
Hath gathered for me in its flight.

"Mere idle dreams," exclaim the wise;
"The action of sub-conscious Mind;
No soul can ever cleave the skies,
And leave its living form behind."
Yet after all, how do they know
That what I fancy is not so?

On God's great horologe sublime,
Where ages slip like seconds by,
All earthly measurements of time
Are lost in sheer immensity,
And Space itself is rendered naught,
When spanned by instantaneous thought.

Each day reveals some startling phase
Of Truth, unknown the day before;
The ether's interstellar maze
Hath waves that break on every shore,
And link in one stupendous sea
The islands of eternity.

"Sub-conscious Mind?" 'Tis but a phrase,
About whose meaning few agree,
though each, befogged in verbal haze,
Assumes infallibility.
Well, let them argue! I meanwhile
Will waken daily with a smile.





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