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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533738" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Desire</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Soul of the leaping flame;<br>	Heart of the scarlet fire,<br>Spirit that hath for name<br>	Only the name - Desire!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Subtle art thou and strong;<br>	Glowing in sunlit skies;<br>Sparkling in wine and song;<br>	Shining in women's eyes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gleaming on shores of Sleep -<br>	Moon of the wild dream-clan -<br>Burning within the deep<br>	Passionate heart of Man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Spirit we can but name,<br>	Essence of Forms that seem,<br>Odour of violet flame,<br>	Weaver of Thought and Dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Laught of the World's great Heart,<br>	Who shall thy rune recote?<br>Child of the gods thou art,<br>	Offspring of Day and Night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lord of the Rainbow ealm,<br>	Many a shape hast thou -<br>Glory with laurelled helm;<br>	Love with the myrtled brow;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sanctity, robed in white;<br>	Liberty, proud and calm,<br>Ringed wth auroral light,<br>	Bearing the sword and palm.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Maidens with dreamful eyes<br>	Eyes of a dreaming dove,<br>See thee in noble guise<br>	Coming, and call thee - Love!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Youth with his blood aflame,<br>	Running in crystal red,<br>Sees, on the Mount of Fame,<br>	Thee with thy hands outspread.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Leader of Hope Forlorn,<br>	When he beholds thine eyes<br>Shining in splendid scorn,<br>	Storming the rampart dies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many have, by good hap,<br>	Seen thee in arms arrayed,<br>Wearing a Phyrian cap,<br>	High on a barricade;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Aye, and by dome and arch<br>	Leading, with eyes ablaze,<br>Onward the Patriots' March,<br>	Singing the Marseillaise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lo, where with trembling lyre<br>	Held in his long white hands<br>Thrilled by thy glance of fire,<br>	Rapt the Musician stands;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling them all around<br>	Glow in the quiv'ring air -<br>Luminous Soul of Sound!<br>	Music of all things fair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet, and Sage, and Seer,<br>	Smile when the world grows wan,<br>Knowing thine advent near,<br>	Over the Hills of Dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Anchorite, aple and worn,<br>	Sees thee, and earth disowns -<br>Lifted on prayer, and borne<br>	Up to the Shining Thrones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yea, as a seraph-star<br>	Chanting in ecstasy,<br>Singing in fire afar,<br>	So he beholdeth thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, as in darksome mines,<br>	far down a corridor,<br>Starlike a small lamp shines,<br>	Raying along the floor -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, ere his race be ran,<br>	Parted his last faint breath,<br>Thou, for the dying man,<br>	Lightest the ways of Death;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, while his kindred mourn<br>	Over his shell of clay,<br>Shinest beyond the bourne,<br>	Dawn of his first new day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus through the lives to be<br>	We shall fare, each alone,<br>Evermore lured by thee<br>	Unto an End unknown.<br>First published in The Bulletin, 10 December 1898, p16</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Return to the Victor Daley page.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</a><div class=q>
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	Heart of the scarlet fire,
Spirit that hath for name
	Only the name - Desire!

Subtle art thou and strong;
	Glowing in sunlit skies;
Sparkling in wine and song;
	Shining in women's eyes;

Gleaming on shores of Sleep -
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