The Birth

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Title:     The Birth
Author: Don Marquis [More Titles by Marquis]

THERE is a legend that the love of God
So quickened under Mary's heart it wrought
Her very maidenhood to holier stuff....
However that may be, the birth befell
Upon a night when all the Syrian stars
Swayed tremulous before one lordlier orb
That rose in gradual splendor,
Paused,
Flooding the firmament with mystic light,
And dropped upon the breathing hills
A sudden music
Like a distillation from its gleams;
A rain of spirit and a dew of song!

[The end]
Don Marquis's poem: Birth

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