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SANCTUARY by CLINTON SCOLLARD

First Line: LET US PUT BY SOME HOUR OF EVERY DAY
Last Line: AND TOUCHED BY THE WHITE LIGHT INEFFABLE!
Subject(s): WORSHIP;
Let us put by some hour of every day
For holy things!—whether it be when dawn
Peers through the window pane, or when the noon
Flames, like a burnished topaz, in the vault,
Or when the thrush pours in the ear of eve
Its plaintive monody; some little hour
Wherein to hold rapt converse with the soul,
From sordidness and self a sanctuary,Swept by the winnowing of unseen wings,
And touched by the White Light Ineffable!



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