Song of Seyd Nimetollah,

III.-ADDITIONAL POEMS OF 1876.

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*The Nun's Aspiration,

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*Hymn (Ordination of Rev. Chandler Robbins),

*Boston,

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I. POEMS OF 1847.

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I.-POEMS OF 1847.

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THE SPHINX.

HE Sphinx is drowsy,
Her wings are furled;

Her ear is heavy,

She broods on the world.
Who'll tell me my secret,
The ages have kept ?-

I awaited the seer

While they slumbered and slept :

"The fate of the man-child,
The meaning of man;
Known fruit of the unknown;
Dædalian plan;

Out of sleeping a waking,
Out of waking a sleep;
Life death overtaking;
Deep underneath deep?

"Erect as a sunbeam,
Upspringeth the palm;
The elephant browses,
Undaunted and calm;
In beautiful motion

The thrush plies his wings:
Kind leaves of his covert,

Your silence he sings.