The Valley of Silence
Fiona Macleod
1855 to 1905
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In the secret Valley of Silence
No breath doth fall;
No wind stirs in the branches;
No bird doth call:
As on a white wall
A breathless lizard is still,
So silence lies on the valley
Breathlessly still.
In dusk-grown heart of the valley
An altar rises white:
rapt priest bends in awe
Before its silent light:
sometimes a flight
Of breathless words of prayer
White-wing'd the altar,
Eddies of prayer.