Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY LADY AND THE CRYSTAL GLOBE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


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MY LADY AND THE CRYSTAL GLOBE, by                    
First Line: Deep in the depths of the crystal globe
Last Line: Spurn not me, lady fair!
Subject(s): Women


Deep in the depths of the crystal globe
What see you, Lady fair?
Why seek Life's mysteries to probe,
Wouldst read thy future there?
What portents flushing cheek, and fire
Spite-flashed from cruel eye?
Art robbed therein of heart's desire?
Canst thou thy fates descry?
Spurn not them, Lady fair!
Spurn not them, Lady fair!

See, in the spectrum's azure flame
Before you, Lady fair,
The cryptic marking of a name
Linked close with thine,—beware!
The divination of each line
Within yon crystal ball,
Thou knowst doth prove thy life and mine
Are linked for once and all;
Spurn not me, Lady fair!
Spurn not me, Lady fair!





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