Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Earthly Paradise, Vol. 4: A Poem
Thin o'er the moon the hindmost cloud swims past Of that great rack that brought us up the snow; On earth strange shadows o'er the snow are cast; Pale stars, bright moon, swift cloud make heaven so vast That earth left silent by the wind of night Seems shrunken 'neath the grey unmeasured height.
Ah! Through the hush the looked-for midnight clangs! And then, e'en while its last stroke's solemn drone In the cold air by unlit windows hangs, Out break the bells above the year foredone, Change, kindness lost, love left unloved alone; Till their despairing sweetness makes thee deem Thou once wert loved, if but amidst a dream.
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