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 678 RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE

It is their right in the Baths of Night

Body and soul to steep, But we pity us! ah, pity us!

We wakeful; oh, pity us! We must go back with Policeman Day

Back from the City of Sleep!

Over the edge of the purple down,

Ere the tender dreams begin, Look we may look at the Merciful Town,

But we may not enter in ! Outcasts all, from her guarded wall

Back to our watch we creep: We pity us! ah, pity us!

We wakeful; oh, pity us! We that go back with Policeman Day

Back from the City of Sleep!

"HELEN ALL ALONE"

HPHERE was darkness under Heaven

For an hour's space Darkness that we knew was given

Us for special grace. Sun and moon and stars were hid,

God had left His Throne, When Helen came to me, she did.

Helen all alone!

Side by side (because our fate

Damned us ere our birth) We stole out of Limbo Gate

Looking for the Earth.