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THE VALLEY OF SILENCE by WILLIAM SHARP

First Line: IN THE SECRET VALLEY OF SILENCE
Last Line: EDDIES OF PRAYER.
Subject(s): DEATH; FUTURE LIFE; PRAYER; SILENCE; DEAD, THE; RETRIBUTION; ETERNITY; AFTER LIFE;
In the secret Valley of Silence
No breath doth fall;
No wind stirs in the branches;
No bird doth call:
As on a white wall
A breathless lizard is still,
So silence lies on the valley
Breathlessly still.

In the dusk-grown heart of the valley
An altar rises white:
No rapt priest bends in awe
Before its silent light:
But sometimes a flight
Of breathless words of prayer
White-wing'd enclose the altar,
Eddies of prayer.



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