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MIST
AND FROST
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VEIL-LIKE
and beautiful
Gathered the dutiful
Mist in the night,
True to the messaging,
Dreamful and presaging
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Vapour
and light.
GHOSTLY and chill it is,
Pallid and still it is,
Sudden uprist;
What is there tragical, |
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Moving
or magical,
Hid in the mist?
MILLIONS
of essences,
Fairy-like presences
Formless as yet;
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Light-riven
spangles,
Crystalline tangles
Floating unset.
FROST
will come shepherding
Nowise enjeoparding |
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Frondage
or flower;
Just a degree of it,
Nought can we see of it
Only its power.
EARTH
like a Swimmer |
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Plunged
into the dimmer
Wave of the night,
Now is uprisen,
An Elysian vision
Of spray and of light. |
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'TIS the intangible
Delicate frangible
Secret of mist,
Breathing may banish it,
Thought may evanish it,—
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Ponder
and whist!
PASSIONLESS
purity,
Calmness in surety
Dwells everywhere,
A winnowed whiteness, |
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A
lunar lightness
Glows in the air.
BUT
in the heart of it
Every least part of it
Blooms with the
charm, |
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Star-shape
and frondage
Broken from bondage
Forged into form.
CRYSTALS
encrusted,
Diamonds dusted |
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Line
everything,
Tiny the stencillings
Are as the pencillings
On a moth's
wing.
AND
O, what a wonder! |
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No
farther asunder
Than atoms are laid,
The arches and angles
Of star-froth and spangles
Cast their own shade. |
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OUT from the chalices,
The pigmy palaces
Where the tint hides,
Opal and sapphire
Half-pearl and half-fire
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The
colour slides;
TILL
the frail miracle
Rapturous lyrical
Flushes and glows
With a wraith of florescence |
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That
tempers or lessens
The light of the
snows.
HELD
all aquiver,—
But now with a shiver
The power of the
sun
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Dissolves
the laces
Of the tender mazes,
All is undone.
BUT
the old Earth brooding,
All wisdom including, |
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Affirms
and assures
That above the material,
Triumphal imperial
Beauty endures. |
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