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THRENODY.
October 6, 1892.
I.
and ruled its breath,
Changed it, bade it be glad or sad, and hear what
change in the world's ear saith,
Shines more fair in the starrier air whose glory lightens
the dusk of death.
Suns that sink on the wan sea's brink, and moons that
kindle and flame and fade,
Leave more clear for the darkness here the stars that set
not and see not shade
Rise and rise on the lowlier skies by rule of sunlight and
moonlight swayed.
