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SONNET-SEQUENCE: 5 by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: DEAR, THROUGH THE SILENCE COMES A VIBRANT CALL
Last Line: WE MEET, WE MERGE, WE ARE ONE; I THOU; THOU ME!
Subject(s): DEATH; LOVE; DEAD, THE;

Dear, through the silence comes a vibrant call,
Thy voice, thy very voice it is, O Sweet!
Yet who shall scale the dread invisible wall
That guards the Eden where our souls would meet?
O veil of flesh, O dull mortality,
Is there no vision for the enfranchised eyes:
Must we stoop low thro' Death's green-glooms to see
The immaculate light known of our winged sighs?
Nay, Love; of body or soul no shadow or gloom
Can always; always, thee and me dispart;
Soul of my soul, thro' the very gates of Doom
Even as deep to deep, heart crieth to heart --
Yea, as two moving waves on Life's wild sea;
We meet, we merge, we are one; I thou; thou me!



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