THE CUP OF DEW

Poems encoded from the book The Sea by James Oppenheim

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                <l>LATE, and lonely, and faint for sleep,</l>
                <l>I yet will pause and have silence,</l>
                <l>That the thirsty one, my soul,</l>
                <l>May open to the night</l>
                <l>And drink the dew...</l>
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                <l>I know that the day was wasted, many-tongued.</l>
                <l>In noise and dust I stifled:</l>
                <l>Over me passed a wind of words, and the world reeled.</l>
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                <l>But now I am alone...</l>
                <l>Now space, and silence, and my body and I</l>
                <l>Bathed in beloved night..</l>
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                <l>Dew of the stars and of the ether and earth,</l>
                <l>Dew of my soul,</l>
                <l>Fall into the cup of my beseeching hands,</l>
                <l>That I may put thee to my lips</l>
                <l>And drink the waters of great healing</l>
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The Sea 2019 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 thanhloi.le89@gmail.com
2012

Copyright © 2019 by Thanhloi Le

The Sea; 1924 The Sea James Oppenheim March 1924 Alfred A. Knoff, INC. New York

Thanhloi Le Transcribed and encoded a poem THE CUP OF DEW view page image(s) LATE, and lonely, and faint for sleep, I yet will pause and have silence, That the thirsty one, my soul, May open to the night And drink the dew... 5 I know that the day was wasted, many-tongued. In noise and dust I stifled: Over me passed a wind of words, and the world reeled. But now I am alone... Now space, and silence, and my body and I 10 Bathed in beloved night.. Dew of the stars and of the ether and earth, Dew of my soul, Fall into the cup of my beseeching hands, That I may put thee to my lips 15 And drink the waters of great healing 208

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The Sea 2019 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
319 Love Library University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 thanhloi.le89@gmail.com
2012

Copyright © 2019 by Thanhloi Le

The Sea; 1924 The Sea James Oppenheim March 1924 Alfred A. Knoff, INC. New York

Thanhloi Le Transcribed and encoded a poem THE CUP OF DEW LATE, and lonely, and faint for sleep, I yet will pause and have silence, That the thirsty one, my soul, May open to the night And drink the dew... I know that the day was wasted, many-tongued. In noise and dust I stifled: Over me passed a wind of words, and the world reeled. But now I am alone... Now space, and silence, and my body and I Bathed in beloved night.. Dew of the stars and of the ether and earth, Dew of my soul, Fall into the cup of my beseeching hands, That I may put thee to my lips And drink the waters of great healing 208