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Otto Bohanan, "On Rankin Chapel" (1915)

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Within the sombre silence of thy hall
I pass, and as the lurid lights grow dim
A thousand voices lifted in a hymn
Marshal sweet music. Softened by the pall.
The chastened Scripture reading I recall,
Starting the tears that trembled on the brim,
Healing the hope that swayed with battered rim
Still blindly on. Yea, I remember all!

Tell me thy thoughts, wilt thou, sweet Galahad?
Long hast thou peered from out the sunlit pane
Serenely smiling; eyes that burn and beam
With holy fire have watched us — still, half sad—
Crying our souls in endless sobbing strains.
And thinkest thou that we do wrong to dream?

Otto Leland Bohanan '14 
Published in NIKH, Howard University yearbook

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