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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391846" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Soul's Destiny</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the liquid vault of ether hung the starry gems of light,<br>Blazing with unwonted splendor on the ebon brow of night;<br>Far across the arching concave like a train of silver lay,<br>Nebulous, and white, and dreamy, heaven's star-wrought Milky Way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was gazing, gazing upward, all my senses captive fraught,<br>From the earnest contemplation of celestial glories caught,<br>When the thought arose within me, as the ages onward roll<br>What may be th' eternal portion of the vast, th' immortal soul?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the crimson tide of Nature ceases from its ruddy flow,<br>And these decaying bodies mouldering are so cold and low,<br>And the loathsome grave-worm feeding on the still and pulseless<br>heart,<br>Where may be the immortal spirit, what may be its deathless part?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze,<br>While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze,<br>Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears,<br>Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From the sparkling orb of Venus, sweetest star that gems the blue,<br>Soon a form of seraph beauty burst upon my raptured view;<br>Wavy robes were floating round her, and her richly-clustering hair<br>Lay like golden-wreathed moonbeams round her forehead young and fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then a company of seraphs gathered round this form so bright,<br>And unfurled their snowy pinions in those realms of crystal light,<br>Sweeping swiftly onward, onward with their music-breathing wings,<br>Till they passed the distant orbit where the mighty Neptune swings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then from stormy, wild Orion, to the dragon's fiery roll,<br>And the sturdy Ursa Major tramping round the Boreal pole,<br>On to stately Argo Navis rearing diamond spars on high,<br>Starry bands of seraph wanderers clove the azure of the sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lofty awe and adoration all my throbbing bosom filled,<br>Every pulse and nerve in nature with ecstatic wonder thrilled.<br>O, were these bright, shining millions disembodied human souls,<br>That casting off earth's fettering bonds had gained immortal goals!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On each face there beamed a brightness mortal words can ne'er<br>rehearse,<br>Seemed it the concentred glory of the boundless universe.<br>O, 'twas light, 'twas love, 'twas wisdom, science, knowledge, all<br>combined,<br>'Twas the ultimate perfection of the God-like human mind!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One by one the constellations sank below the horizon's rim,<br>And with grief I found my starry vision growing earthly dim;<br>While all the thrilling harmonies, that filled the air around,<br>Died off in far, sweet echoings, within the dark profound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Bowing then with lowly seeming on the damp and dewy sod,<br>All my soul in adoration floated up to Nature's God,<br>While the struggling thoughts within me found voice in earnest<br>prayer;<br>'Almighty Father, let my soul one day those glories share!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q>
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Nebulous, and white, and dreamy, heaven's star-wrought Milky Way.

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