James Brunton Stephens

“ Already here to hearts intense,
A spirit-force, transcending sense,
In heights unsealed, in deeps unstirred,
Beneath the calm, above the storm,
She waits the incorporating word
To bid her tremble into form. ”

“ Our bounds shall be the seas alone.
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