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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WIRELESS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER
First Line: The high stars glimmer in thine iron net
Last Line: Caught from the far unfathomed gulf of death?
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: The high stars glimmer in thine iron net
Last Line: Caught from the far unfathomed gulf of death?
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
THE high stars glimmer in thine iron net,
And winds go whimpering along the wires;
Vast on the dark thy Titan bulk aspires—
A watcher on a lonely parapet!
And far, from hidden isles in ocean set,
Invisibly, yet thrall to thy desires,
They come, on wings nor storm nor darkness tires—
Words that the far-off hearts of men beget.
Gaunt harvester of desperate gulfs of night,
Strange winnower in wide dim vales of air,
Wilt thou yet garner by thy mystic might
Some word to still our ancient long despair?
A whisper from the infinite?—a breath
Caught from the far unfathomed gulf of death?
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