Religion
A Beam of Light
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Religion
A beam of light, from the infinite depths of the midnight sky,
Painted with infinite love a star in a convict's eye;
When, lo! the ghosts of his sins were afraid and fled with a curse,
And the soul of the man walked free in the fields of the universe!
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MLA
Rooney, John Jerome. “A Beam of Light.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rooney/5/.
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Rooney, John Jerome. “A Beam of Light.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rooney/5/.
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