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CANDLES, by                    
First Line: Drop your offering in the box
Last Line: "some one, entering in the dark, / later on, may see it shine"
Subject(s): Candles


Drop your offering in the box.
Light a candle at the shrine.
Join it to those wasting flames
Ere the last forget to shine.

Endless darkness gathers round
Drowning every star to-night!
Here at least your soul has found
One small ring of candle-light.

Grief unuttered, love unbreathed,
Burning upward, each alone;
Memories with each flame enwreathed --
Add one more, then, of your own.

Some are spent and guttering low,
Speechless little hopes and prayers.
You, the wise one, you, who know --
Add your midget flame to theirs.

Ask not by that misty gleam
What your sightless eyes can trace.
Ask not if Murillo's dream
Hides the beauty of Her face.

Drop your offering in the box.
Light your candle at the shrine.
Some one, entering in the dark,
Later on, may see it shine.





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