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 HERBERT EDWARD PALMER

And He sailed in a wooden vessel On the waters of Galilee, And He work'd at a wooden trestle At His wonderful carpentry.

Oh, all that is moulded of iron Has lent to destruction and blood; But the things that are honour'd of Zion Are most of them made from wood.

��LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Hymn to Love

WE are thine, O Love, being in thee and made of thec, As thou, Love, were the deep thought And we the speech of the thought; yea, spoken are we, Thy fires of thought out-spoken:

But burn'd not through us thy imagining

Like fierce mood in a song caught, We were as clamour'd words a fool may fling, Loose words, of meaning broken.

For what more like the brainless speech of a fool,

The lives travelling dark fears, And as a boy throws pebbles in a pool

Thrown down abysmal places?

Hazardous are the stars, yet is our birth

And our journeying time theirs; As words of air, life makes of starry earth

Sweet soul-delighted faces,

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