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VESPERS (Prayers and Musings in the Temple of Fire)


Poplar bells and oracle shells,

The Priestess stokes the fire.

 

The haze of incense:

Is it You who approaches?

 

Who alights in our midst,

Embracing the air with breath of myrrh and lilies?

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