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ORA PRO ME by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR

First Line: O PRAY FOR ME! LO, HERE THY LOVER LIES!
Last Line: FOR ME.
Subject(s): PRAYER;
O PRAY for me! Lo, here thy lover lies!
O pray for me!
Remember me, O strange ecstatic eyes,
And pray for me!
Beneath thy nimb of sacerdotal gold,
Lifted aspirant face, O pray for me!
Ye long white pointed hands I yearned to hold
Against my breaking heart, implore for me,—
For me.

Then as I lie swathed in my waiting dream
(Unransomed yet!)
The colour and music of the Past shall seem
(O all regret!)
The great rose-window in a kirk of rest,
Where in a circumflagrant fantasy
Of rose and gold and green, thou flowerest,
To pray for all sick souls, to pray for me—
For me.



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