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THE WIND AT NIGHT.
Floating among the shadows of the room
   With eyes light-darting,

Bringing faint airs of balm that seem to rouse
   Thoughts of a Far Land,
Then binding softly upon weary brows
   Death's poppy-garland?

O fearful blast, I shudder at thy sound,
   Like heathen mortal
Who saw the Three that mark life's doomed bound
   Sit at his portal.

Thou mightst be laden with sad, shrieking souls,
   Carried unwilling
From their known earth to the unknown stream that rolls
   All anguish stilling.

Fierce wind, will the Death-angel come like thee,
   Soon, soon to bear me
Whither? what mysteries may unfold to me,
   What terrors scare me?

Shall I go wand'ring on through empty space
   As on earth, lonely?
Or seek through myriad spirit-ranks one face,
   And miss that only?