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A. Newberry Choyce You in some stiff God's house

Who kneel and shiver

Towards a judgment day

Of your own setting.

But if a Destiny too kind

Bring you for one short second

Closer to wisdom;

To the breathing hills and spaces

Where my God lives

And makes His Throne in every leaf and flower

And whispers in each wind,

Then I will tell you this—

That my God is so great

I doubt if He will dare

To judge these souls.

Reincarnation

LOVED you in Babylon.

Sweet Heart! you were a dancer then

And I watched where your little feet

Just stirred the dust within the market-place.

You passed me slow and down the sunlit street,

I saw the longing in the eyes of men 29