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“Invocation” by
John Masefield
🏴
(
1 Jun 1878
–
12 May 1967
)
O wanderer into many brains,
O spark the emperor’s purple hides,
You sow the dusk with fiery grains
When the gold horseman rides.
O beauty on the darkness hurled,
Be it through me you shame the world.