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Russell, George William - Song and its Fountain
Identifier
004769
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
George Russell
In that fierce illumination which gave birth to the poem, I was surrounded by a wavering of phantom pictures. A dusky beauty all in rose and gold flowed to me. There were high buildings, strange cars or chariots, a great room with stone walls and an iron door, as if the whole of some gorgeous past wished to renew itself at that instant