BIRTHDAY ODE.
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Then eastward far past northland lea and lawn ant. 2
Beneath a heavier light
Of stormier day and night
Began the music of the heaven of dawn;60
Bright sound of battle along the Grecian waves,
Loud light of thunder above the Median graves,
New strife, new song on Æschylean sea,
Canaris risen above Themistocles;
Old glory of warrior ghosts
Shed fresh on filial hosts,
With dewfall redder than the dews of day,
And earth-born lightnings out of bloodbright spray;
Then through the flushed grey gloom on shadowy sheaves
Low flights of falling leaves;70
And choirs of birds transfiguring as they throng
All the world's twilight and the soul's to song.
