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She said: “I know the miracle is this]
She said: “I know the miracle is this,This pause and foretaste of eternity:
Time was for us and time returns; but we
To-day guess something, for life's chrysalis,
In one transcendent metamorphosis,
Shatters, and wings flash sky-ward, and we see
Suddenly—stars!—and now no less can be
Declared of life than what the secret is!
Yet time returns, and death perchance is long
And time eternal,—but the stars that throng
Our skies of silence live beyond control
Of death and time, for, guessing at the goal
Of truth, we rise, thro' ringing spheres of song,
And find them glittering steadfast in the soul!”
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