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 The Bridge of Fire

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 * High on the bridge of Heaven whose Eastern bars
 * Exclude the interchange of Night and Day,
 * Robed with faint seas and crowned with quiet stars
 * All great Gods dwell to whom men prayed or pray.
 * No winter chills, no fear or fever mars
 * Their grand and timeless hours of pomp and play ;
 * Some drive about the Rim wind-golden cars
 * Or, shouting, laugh Eternity away.
 * The daughters of their pride,
 * Moon-pale, blue-water-eyed,
 * Their flame-white bodies pearled with falling spray,
 * Send all their dark hair streaming
 * Down where the worlds lie gleaming,
 * And draw their mighty lovers close and say :
 * " Come over by the Stream : one hears
 * The speech of Nations broken in the chant of Spheres."

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