I saw a wonderful light –
Watching the midnight sky –
Leap suddenly into the voiceless dark,
And as suddenly die.
Was it a golden lance
Into the silence hurled
By the Spirit of Air? A new-born star,
Or the wreck of a world?
(Albert Laighton)
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