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A SUNRISE EFFECT.
I look'd across the river for the day.
The clouds came not, the air was very slow,
Till on their ridges past an underglow,
And tinged in amber cadence all the gray.
The clouds came not, the air was very slow,
Till on their ridges past an underglow,
And tinged in amber cadence all the gray.
Then one clear star, set in a branch of rose,
Drew in before the river of bold light,
Foiling the ragged cloud to left and right,
To sort a crystal lake of raying glows.
Drew in before the river of bold light,
Foiling the ragged cloud to left and right,
To sort a crystal lake of raying glows.
I could not rest; a wilderness of mind
Was strong within me; love and shame and thought
Of days behind, at that one instant caught
To reason from the mental store-house blind.
Was strong within me; love and shame and thought
Of days behind, at that one instant caught
To reason from the mental store-house blind.
Last thou, fair lily head, beyond night's fall
Steep'd in warm sleep, sweet central wish of all!
Steep'd in warm sleep, sweet central wish of all!
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