END AND BEGINNING
by: Amelia Josephine Burr
(1878-?)
- HE world
of the elder gods is aflame. The smoke of its burning,
- Heavy with fumes of carnage, darkens the shuddering skies.
- Tortured flesh in ashes to tortured earth is returning.
- Baldur the Beautiful, rise!
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- Rise, for this is thine hour. The mighty who said they had
slain thee,
- Stretch their stiffening hands to a redly perishing prize.
- Thou who has bided thy time in the tomb that could not retain
thee,
- Baldur the Beautiful, rise!
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- Spirit of light and freedom, behold thy foundation is ready.
- Dust and blood and tears, the glory of empire lies.
- Wonderful over the waste, strong as the sun and as steady,
- Baldur the Beautiful, rise!
"End and Beginning" is
reprinted from Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916. Ed.
William Stanley Braithwaite. New York: Laurence J. Gomme, 1916. |
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