Poem

Open Your Eyes

Open thine eyes and let me gaze on them awhile!To read the wondrous hymn of silence' style!
Lest truth of that tremendous secret fail!To read eternity's tale in a single word expressed,
To see departed dream's shade and drowsy waking's rest!Open thine eyes — all fades save truth embodied in my breast
Story

The Guardian

Publisher Royal Farouk Press
Page count 127
Publication date 1946

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