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MARCUS AURELIUS AND EPICTETUS by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN

First Line: TWIN STARS, SERENE AND PURE
Last Line: FILLED THE BLUE HEAVENS WITH LIGHT.
Subject(s): PHILOSOPHY & PHILOSOPHERS; STARS;
TWIN stars, serene and pure,
In the fear-haunted gloom
Of the wild pagan night,—
So long, so long ago!
In Royal purple one,
Philosopher and saint,
With words divinely wise;
The other but a slave,
Yet monarch still who ruled
The godlike minds of men.
Alone, undimmed, they burned
Above a world of doom,
Until the morning-red
Flamed crimson in the east,
And the ascending dawn
Of an immortal Christ
Filled the blue heavens with light.



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