“Fiat!”—The flaming word
Flashed, as the brooding Bird
Uttered the doom far heard
Of Death and Night.
“Fiat!”—A cloistered womb—
A sealed, untainted tomb—
Wakes to the birth and bloom
Of Life and Light.
(John Bannister Tabb)
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