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INVOCATION OF SILENCE by RICHARD FLECKNOE

First Line: STILL-BORN SILENCE! THOU THAT ART
Last Line: SEIZE THIS MAID, AND STRIKE HER DUMB.
Subject(s): SILENCE;

Stillborn Silence, thou that art
Floodgate of the deeper heart;

Offspring of a heavenly kind,
Frost o' the mouth and thaw o' the mind;

Secrecy's confident, and he
Who makes religion mystery;

Admiration's speakingest tongue, --
Leave thy desert shades among

Reverend hermits' hallowed cells,
Where retiredest Devotion dwells;

With thy enthusiasms come,
Seize this maid, and strike her dumb.



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