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XXXIX THE AFTER-GLOW
As sometimes to a dead unwrinkled face
There comes a flush, by which we partly know
The beauty of the youth lost long ago—
The glory of life's morning and its grace—
So to this calm unwrinkled heavenly place,
Where-from the sun sank suddenly below,
There came a magical mysterious glow,
When death had paled the whole land for a space.
There comes a flush, by which we partly know
The beauty of the youth lost long ago—
The glory of life's morning and its grace—
So to this calm unwrinkled heavenly place,
Where-from the sun sank suddenly below,
There came a magical mysterious glow,
When death had paled the whole land for a space.
And swift the death-white argent of the west
Was changed to saffron, saffron burned to gold,
Gold leapt to rose, rose lightened into flame;
You might have thought day young that late was old,
Death life, and for his bride in splendour drest
The undying sun once more a bridegroom came.
Was changed to saffron, saffron burned to gold,
Gold leapt to rose, rose lightened into flame;
You might have thought day young that late was old,
Death life, and for his bride in splendour drest
The undying sun once more a bridegroom came.
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