Bronze (Johnson)/The Watcher

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THE WATCHER
The long, grim years with iron tread
 Move down the shuttered isle
Of time's unrecking labyrinth
 Paved with forgotten dead.

And I, a feather in their wake,
 Gaze long and tremblingly
Into these sunless corridors,
 Praying the light to break!

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