VIGIL

by: Maurice Maeterlinck

Y soul her unused hands to pray

Folds, that hide the world away:

Lord, my broken dreams complete,

That Thine angels' lips repeat.

 

While beneath my wearied eyes

She breathes the prayers that in her rise--

Prayers that find my lids a tomb,

And whose lilies may not bloom:

 

While in dreams her barren breast

Hushes 'neath my gaze to rest--

Still her eyes from perils cower,

Such as wake by falsehood's power.

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