Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP


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First Line: In the secret valley of silence
Last Line: Eddies of prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


In the secret Valley of Silence
No breath doth fall;
No wind stirs in the branches;
No bird doth call:
As on a white wall
A breathless lizard is still,
So silence lies on the valley
Breathlessly still.

In the dusk-grown heart of the valley
An altar rises white:
No rapt priest bends in awe
Before its silent light:
But sometimes a flight
Of breathless words of prayer
White-wing'd enclose the altar,
Eddies of prayer.





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