LIFE
LXV
GOOD night! which put the candle out?
A jealous zephyr, not a doubt.
Ah! friend, you little knew
How long at that celestial wick
The angels labored diligent;
Extinguished, now, for you!
A jealous zephyr, not a doubt.
Ah! friend, you little knew
How long at that celestial wick
The angels labored diligent;
Extinguished, now, for you!
It might have been the lighthouse spark
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had importuned to see!
It might have been the waning lamp
That lit the drummer from the camp
To purer reveille!
Some sailor, rowing in the dark,
Had importuned to see!
It might have been the waning lamp
That lit the drummer from the camp
To purer reveille!
LXVI
WHEN I hoped I feared,
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain ;
Spectre cannot harm.
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered him.
Since I hoped I dared;
Everywhere alone
As a church remain ;
Spectre cannot harm.
Serpent cannot charm;
He deposes doom,
Who hath suffered him.
LXVII
A DEED knocks first at thought,
And then it knocks at will.
That is the manufacturing spot,
And will at home and well.
And then it knocks at will.
That is the manufacturing spot,
And will at home and well.
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