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IN THE SILENT REACHES OF MY SOUL by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER

First Line: OH, DEEP IN THE SHADOWY VALES THAT LIE
Last Line: UNKNOWN TO A FINITE WORLD.
Subject(s): GOD; SILENCE; SOUL;

Oh, deep in the shadowy vales that lie
In the silent reaches of my soul,
In thy solitudes, O my soul,
Live the wraiths of the Hopes of the self that I
Know as myself, yet unknown to the whole
Of the doubting, shallow world.

And when, in my nature's wearied hours,
I seek in an introspective mood
Those cloistered haunts for my spirit's food,
Come those wraiths at my call with their God-born powers,
And I am a god in a realm of good,
Unknown to a finite world.



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