Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters

It is one long poem, really; and the reader must occasionally suffer through an ineffective inversion of syntax, or a too-precious archaism -- but imperceptive would be the soul who remains unmoved by the beauty of Thompson's lustrous cadences. Read the verses aloud so as to more readily recognize the natural majesty of sound. Here is poetic grandeur, flawed at times by the effete or by the overly "poetic": nonetheless, the attentive reader will be more than amply rewarded.