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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECLUSE, by HAROLD VINAL Poet's Biography
First Line: She moved, a saint among us, more concerned
Last Line: No one had known it by her spoken word.
Subject(s): Devil; Prayer; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub
First Line: She moved, a saint among us, more concerned
Last Line: No one had known it by her spoken word.
Subject(s): Devil; Prayer; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub
She moved, a saint among us, more concerned
With altitudes and vistas out of sight
Than with the things at hand, and so she turned
Her back upon the world, and that was right.
And yet we always felt in spite of her
Acceptance of the tenets and the Book
She might have joined the cult of Lucifer
Instead of following the path she took.
She was too versed in rubrics of the mind
To heed the body's hunger and be fed,
Too skilled in prayer and fasting, too refined
To look beyond the sacramental bread.
And if her passion ever had been stirred,
No one had known it by her spoken word.
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