TIME AND ETERNITY
If I should stab the patient faith
So sure I’d come — so sure I’d come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name,—
So sure I’d come — so sure I’d come,
It listening, listening, went to sleep
Telling my tardy name,—
My heart would wish it broke before,
Since breaking then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning’s sun,
Where midnight frosts had lain!
Since breaking then, since breaking then,
Were useless as next morning’s sun,
Where midnight frosts had lain!
LXXVII
GREAT streets of silence led away
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.
To neighborhoods of pause;
Here was no notice, no dissent,
No universe, no laws.
By clocks ’twas morning, and for night
The bells at distance called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
The bells at distance called;
But epoch had no basis here,
For period exhaled.
LXXVIII
A THROE upon the features
A hurry in the breath,
An ecstasy of parting
Denominated “Death”, —
A hurry in the breath,
An ecstasy of parting
Denominated “Death”, —
An anguish at the mention,
Which, when to patience grown,
I’ve known permission given
To rejoin its own.
Which, when to patience grown,
I’ve known permission given
To rejoin its own.
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