Fragment*
There you will see the light
That
In the dark night shines bright.
The door will stand open
And
The gold bands be broken.
Man will fly from this soil
To
Another world more royal.
Cold, without air it be
But
Will be our future see.
from the lost pages of James the Feeble: his note on the letter fragment** is:” This appears to be a letter written by John Dee to Sir Phillip Sidney. I have made the best of what I could read.”
**”My Lord, I write you concerning the subject of conversation we had in the shop of Arnold Birckmann, Monday last. I have been able to read (with the aid of Anodoin) a small part of the strange document I purchased from his Lordship concerning that which we addressed…it noted this:”
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