xt73tx351m01 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dipstest/xt73tx351m01/data/mets.xml Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914. c1913.  books b92-188-30608506 English P.F. Volland, : Chicago : This digital resource may be freely searched and displayed.  Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.  Physical rights are retained by the owning repository.  Copyright is retained in accordance with U. S. copyright laws.  For information about permissions to reproduce or publish, contact the Special Collections Research Center. Message of the lilies  / by Madison Cawein. text Message of the lilies  / by Madison Cawein. 1913 c1913. 2002 true xt73tx351m01 section xt73tx351m01 
















































































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MESSAGE OF



THE LILIES



      BY
MADISON CAWEIN



  Published by
P. F.Vollard  Co.
at their Shop in
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       C.OPYR.GHV. 1913
. F VOLLANO S COMPANY. CHCAGO0

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M Y soul and I went
     walking
Beneath the moon of



     spring;
The E aster



lilies



were



     talking,
We heard them



murmuring-

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IT  HEIR language was
A L  an essence,
But clearer than a bird's;
And from it grew a
     presence,
As music grows from
     words.

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IN dimly moonlit
      places
Some raised sweet throats
      of white
And others lifted faces



Of fragrant snow and
     light.

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A SPIRIT born of
) ,  fire



And holiness



and



snoxv



Within the Heavens'
     desire



Were not



more pure



to know.

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A  SPIRIT born of
J46k, silence
And purity and dew-
Among Elysian islands
Were not more white
     of hue.

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H E smiled-amid them
     lifting
White hands of prayer
      and peace,
And through the moon
     light drifting
Came words to me like



these:



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(t   r E are
  V Vlilies!
  His praises
  We are His
  Behold the
       bring!



His lilies,



aye we sing!
lilies, lilies!
Word we

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