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I went down into my heart. It was hollow and cold and deep. There were statues standing apart in a folded icicle-sleep. There was beauty beneath their veils, wild beauty and terror too; But they were asleep, asleep, and knew not my passing through.
I went down into my heart, to the altar the God built there. The lamp burned low to its death; the altar was dusty and bare; And the face of the God was blurred, and the gold of his fringes dead. I went thither to kneel and pray, but my prayers were slow to be said.
I came up out of my heart to the traffic and toil of the day. I had been but the wink of an eye, the tick of a clock, away. But I knew that I should not dare go back to my heart once more Till the statues waked with a cry and the God gleamed out from the door!