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THE VEIL OF ISIS by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR

First Line: TO LIFT HER VEIL, WHOSE BROIDERIES
Last Line: TO LIFT HER VEIL?
Subject(s): CHASTITY; DEATH; FLIRTATION; INNOCENCE; DEAD, THE;
To lift her veil, whose broideries
Are hornéd moons and lotuses,
None dare, though priest and thurifer
Charm her with frankincense and myrrh,
And long-drawn mystic harmonies.
Of all mankind's divinities
None secreter than this of his!
Behold, 'tis but to anger her
To lift her veil.

Natheless, in each man's time there is
A lifting of her veil: each @3dies@1.
To die, when all the hate and stir
Are o'er, to be a slumberer,
To dream perchance,—Oh, is not this
To lift her veil?



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