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First Line: There is no lord within my heart
Last Line: To find the god is there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.


There is no lord within my heart,
Left silent as an empty shrine
Where rose and myrtle intertwine,
Within a place apart.

No god is there of carven stone
To watch with still approving eyes
My thoughts like steady incense rise;
I dream and weep alone.

But if I keep my altar fair,
Some morning I shall lift my head
From roses deftly garlanded
To find the god is there.








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