AN AUTUMN VISION.
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As the darkness of thought and of passion is touched by
the light that gives
Life deathless as love from the depth of a spirit that sees
and lives,
From the soul of a seer and a singer, wherein as a scroll
unfurled
Lies open the scripture of light and of darkness, the
word of the world,
So, shapeless and measureless, lurid as anguish and
haggard as crime,
Pale as the front of oblivion and dark as the heart of
time,
The wild wan heaven at its height was assailed and
subdued and made
More fair than the skies that know not of storm and
endure not shade.
The grim sea-swell, grey, sleepless, and sad as a soul
estranged,
Shone, smiled, took heart, and was glad of its wrath:
and the world's face changed.
