IN museful hours, when thoughts of grace divine
Roll wave-like up the stormless strand of dreams;–
When that which is grows vague as that which seems,–
I mark, far-off, a radiant shade incline
From heaven to earth,–whose face of marvellous shine,
(Half veiled in mystic beauty), softly beams
With delicate lustres, and elusive gleams,
Caught from some viewless Eden–hyaline:–
Ethereal, as the wavering hues that start
From chorded rainbows;–lingering scarce so long
As the last sun-ray flashed in twilight’s eye,
I hail this phantom of a perfect song;–
And I, some day, shall pass the phantom by,–
To feel the embodied music next my heart!
(Paul Hamilton Hayne)
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