The Challenger

Frumpish, glummy, deep the dark—looming in decline. Bold the figure challenging: cheerful, lethe, sublime. Gilded light shines on his back, a warming, bellished charm that spills like courage past his head, and wards him from all harm. But deeply still the longsome gloom lies grensome here, and stark, and only light can burn it out—a […]

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All Saints

They burned–and long ago and somehow here below the fire-sparks of ancient glow still reach us; glories of their greatest throw of faith; the settled trust to know that nothing’s lost if it would show that all they have and all they know is nothing worth, and they would throw it all away to seek […]

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