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THE TALES OF AYELSFARN (An Aethereal Menagerie)
(Second Edition)
Copyright 1991 by Robert Bryan Reinhardt
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Includes all original and revised poetry and prose
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The Tales of Ayelsfarn; An Aetherial Managerie I (1985)
The Tales of Ayelsfarn; An Aetherial Managerie II (1991)
Copyright 1985, 1991 by Robert Bryan Reinhardt
ISBN 0-8059-2988-6
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c2. Summum Bonum
Behold in the coming of the Lord
And righteousness thereof;
Remember the holy naming
And the ascension of the Dove.
Ye who are wise shall
Inherit glory:
But shame shall
Be the promotion of fools. *2
Those who would desecrate
The Divine Creation
Would as easily perpetrate
Their imperishable soul to Hades' nation.
As the prism upon the prison wall
Or the crystal globe in a velvet hall
Is like a vision --
Even a revelation from the Prince of Lights,
The one who knows all;
Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
And his holiness;
For then shall all Elysium
Be added unto you. *3
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1 - The title was originally the title of a poem by Robert
Browning; it is Latin for "the highest good." First appeared
in "The Cheap Days Return;" Edgewood High School's annual
literary magazine, Summer, 1982. Appeared secondly in "The
Tales of Ayelsfarn, 1986."
2 - "Ye who ... of fools": Proverbs 3:35.
3 - "Seek ye ... unto you": paraphrased from Matthew 6:33 and Luke 12:31.
