The Valley of Silence

Fiona Macleod

1855 to 1905

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Of breathless words of prayer
An altar rises white:
White-wing'd enclose the altar,
Breathlessly still.
As on a white wall
But sometimes a flight
No wind stirs in the branches;
Before its silent light:
No rapt priest bends in awe
So silence lies on the valley
No breath doth fall;
In the secret Valley of Silence
Eddies of prayer.
In the dusk-grown heart of the valley
A breathless lizard is still,
No bird doth call: