General William Booth enters into heaven and other poems / Vachel Lindsay [electronic text]
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General William Booth enters into heaven and other poems / Vachel Lindsay [electronic text]
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Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931
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New York,: The Macmillan Company
1916
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BEYOND THE MOON
[Written to the Most Beautiful Woman in the World]
MY Sweetheart is the TRUTH BEYOND THE MOON, And never have I been in love with Woman, Always aspiring to be set in tune With one who is invisible, inhuman.
O laughing girl, cold TRUTH has stepped between, Spoiling the fevers of your virgin face: Making your shining eyes but lead and clay, Mocking your brilliant brain and lady's grace.
TRUTH haunted me the day I wooed and lost, The day I wooed and won, or wooed in play: Tho' you were Juliet or Rosalind, Thus shall it be, forever and a day.
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I doubt my vows, tho' sworn on my own blood, Tho' I draw toward you weeping, soul to soul, I have a lonely goal beyond the moon; Ay, beyond Heaven and Hell, I have a goal!
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