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Why, these have faith to move the zones of
man
Out to the point where All and Nothing meet!
They catch the bit of death between their
teeth
In one wild dash to trample the unknown
And leap the bounds of knowledge. They
have dared
Even to defy the sentinel that guards
The doors of the forbidden -- dared to hurl
Their breathing bodies after the Ideal,
That like the Heavenly Kingdom must be taken
Only by violence. The stars that led
The leaders of this quest have held the
world
True to its orbit for a. million years.
And shall they fail.
They never fail who
light
Their lamp of faith at the unwavering flame
Burnt for the altar service of the Race
From the beginning. They shall find the
strange,
The white immaculate Virgin of the North,
Whose steady gaze no human ever grasped.
In the dread silence and the solitude
She waits and listens through the centuries
For these indomitable, destined souls,
Born to endure the glory of her eyes
And lift their warm lips to the Frozen
Grail.
Elsa Barker.
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