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Excerpt from The World Conflict: A Prophetic Vision
The World Conflict
Canto 1. The Barge of Old Charon
'Twas at the twilight hour. I had retired
Unto may chamber, there to rest, to sleep
Mayhap, but not to dream, - or was't a dream?
Nay, hardly such, for in my mortal state
I surely passed that rough and rugged way
Unguided, still by spirit seeming driven,
I came upon a high and rocky ledge
That overhung a high, still-moving stream,
With shadow-mist o'erspread.
There to the north where seemed the end of some
Dark valley, two great mountains formed a wall
That marked the bound'ry of that awesome place.
Long flaming rays of purple-crimson shone
In fan-like streams of deeply shaded light
From up behind those gloomy mountain peaks,
Far o'er the sluggish tide.
The quiet waters laved a shadowy shore,
Low murmuring in mournful monotone;
And in the murkiness of that dense shade,
Electric tension gripped my inmost soul
As in a vise of steel. Close riveted
It held me fast upon that eminence
Of barren rock - a prisoner in chains.
A sense of silent but appalling grief
Closed 'round my heart, like some great sinner's prayer,
That sends its strong appeal into the void
Unto an unknown God.
How had I found my way unto that strange,
Lone vale of brooding silences, and why?
and whither flowed that wide-spread, quite stream,
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