Bend Now Towards Home

The dark lays light upon your brow
The breeze delights upon your skin

For I have come to bid thee go
Upon your soul let lay no sin
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Rest now 
upon your laureled bones
And this way pass 
through coppered gate

As evening weaves 
the gathered strands

The towering clock 
strikes at your fate 
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As night the knot 
Ties one last thread

And lilies cut lay unaware

No prayer abates the setting moon
Nor stills the endless thoroughfare