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OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 10, by                
First Line: Purpled to softness comes the twilight hour
Last Line: Better it is than wield the conqueror's sword.
Subject(s): Passion


Purpled to softness comes the twilight hour,
Out of the travail of the feverish day,
Soothing the hot, quickened breath with the power
Of Gilead's balm to ease the sinner's way.
Girt with the memories of a kindred time,
Pensive I sit beneath the summer sky,
Dreaming of love that fires my feeble rhyme,
Longing for words to clothe the old-time cry.
Passion that wings me to forgotten years,
Give to my heart this flame of mad desire,
Send to my dreams from out the anguished tears
Words that shall breathe of an immortal fire!
O, but to sing an unforgetting chord—
Better it is than wield the conqueror's sword.





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