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Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry - The Wind over the Chimney
Identifier
011011
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – from The Poems of Longfellow [printed about 1875]
from The Wind over the Chimney
But the night wind cries 'Despair'
Those who walk with feet of air
Leave no long enduring marks
At God's forges incandescent
Mighty hammers beat incessant
These are but the flying sparks.
Dust are all the hands that wrought
Books are sepulchres of thought;
The dead laurels of the dead
Rustle for a moment only
Like the withered leaves in lonely
Churchyards at some passing tread