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From
the Book of Myths
by
Bliss Carman
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OVERLORD
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Lord
of the grass and hill,
Lord of the rain,
White Overlord of will,
Master of pain,
I who am dust and air
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Blown
through the halls of death,
Like a pale ghost of prayer,—
I am thy breath.
Lord of the blade and leaf,
Lord of the bloom,
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Sheer
Overlord of grief,
Master of doom,
Lonely as wind or snow,
Through the vague world and dim,
Vagrant and glad I go;
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| I am
thy whim.
Lord of the storm and lull,
Lord of the sea,
I am thy broken gull,
Blown far alee.
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Lord of the harvest dew,
Lord of the dawn,
Star of the paling blue
Darkling and gone,
Lost on the mountain height
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Where
the first winds are stirred,
Out of the wells of night
I am thy word.
Lord of the haunted hush,
Where raptures throng,
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I am
thy hermit thrush,
Ending no song.
Lord of the frost and cold,
Lord of the North,
When the red sun grows old
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day goes forth,
I shall put off this girth,—
Go glad and free,
Earth to my mother earth,
Spirit to thee.
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