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"God needs no christening," Pantheist mutters, "Love opens shutters On heaven's glistening, Flesh, key-hole listening, Hear what God utters" Yes, but God stutters.

PHILOCLEA IN THE FOREST.

I.

'Twas I that leaned to Amoret With: "What if the briars have tangled Time, Till, lost in the wood-ways, he quite forget How plaintive in cities at midnight sounds the chime Of bells slow-dying from discord to the hush whence they rose and met?