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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408348" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lilith</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strange is the song, and the soul that is singing<br>Falters because of the vision it sees;<br>Voice that is not of the living is ringing<br>Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging,<br>Even when Noon is the lord of the leas,<br>Fast, like a curse, to the ghosts of the trees! <br>Here in a mist that is parted in sunder,<br>Half with the darkness and half with the day;<br>Face of a woman, but face of a wonder,<br>Vivid and wild as a flame of the thunder,<br>Flashes and fades, and the wail of the grey<br>Water is loud on the straits of the bay! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Father, whose years have been many and weary—<br>Elder, whose life is as lovely as light<br>Shining in ways that are sterile and dreary—<br>Tell me the name of this beautiful peri,<br>Flashing on me like the wonderful white<br>Star, at the meeting of morning and night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look to thy Saviour, and down on thy knee, man,<br>Lean on the Lord, as the Zebedee leaned;<br>Daughter of hell is the neighbour of thee, man—<br>Lilith, of Adam the luminous leman!<br>Turn to the Christ to be succoured and screened,<br>Saved from the eyes of a marvellous fiend! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Serpent she is in the shape of a woman,<br>Brighter than woman, ineffably fair!<br>Shelter thyself from the splendour, and sue, man;<br>Light that was never a loveliness human<br>Lives in the face of this sinister snare,<br>Longing to strangle thy soul with her hair! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lilith, who came to the father and bound him<br>Fast with her eyes in the first of the springs;<br>Lilith she is, but remember she drowned him,<br>Shedding her flood of gold tresses around him—<br>Lulled him to sleep with the lyric she sings:<br>Melody strange with unspeakable things! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Low is her voice, but beware of it ever,<br>Swift bitter death is the fruit of delay;<br>Never was song of its beauty—ah! never—<br>Heard on the mountain, or meadow, or river,<br>Not of the night is it, not of the day—<br>Fly from it, stranger, away and away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Back on the hills are the blossom and feather,<br>Glory of noon is on valley and spire;<br>Here is the grace of magnificent weather,<br>Where is the woman from gulfs of the nether?<br>Where is the fiend with the face of desire?<br>Gone, with a cry, in miraculous fire! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sound that was not of this world, or the spacious<br>Splendid blue heaven, has passed from the lea;<br>Dead is the voice of the devil audacious:<br>Only a dream is her music fallacious,<br>Here, in the song and the shadow of tree,<br>Down by the green and the gold of the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q>
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Falters because of the vision it sees;
Voice that is not of the living is ringing
Down in the depths where the darkness is clinging,
Even when Noon is the lord of the leas,
Fast, like a curse, to t..."></div>
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