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THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by                    
First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight
Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


WHEN unto heaven the souls elect take flight
The Master keeps the promise He hath made;
He binds their brows with diadems of light;
He decks their hands with ruby rings and jade.

Angels and virgins greet them with their songs;
The strings eternal glad them with sweet sound;
Like stars agleam they see the saints in throngs
And float with them in ecstasy profound.

Upon this dream are anchored all my joys;
Come, Mother Mary, take me by the hand
And lead me out where heaven its bloom deploys,—
So I may breathe the perfumes of that land.





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