WAS it thy step on the mountain-side?
Was it thy voice in the air? –
Strange beauty illumined the landscape wide;
The world lay in heaven-light there.
And a whisper, a breath, through my trouble went; –
Did a soul speak, passing by? –
“Ah, see how the heights and the levels are blent,
How the peaks are dissolved in the sky!
“One tender suffusion of splendor is this, –
Blue summits and meadows green!
So peaceful, so soft the withdrawal is
Of a life into Light unseen.”
– Thy spirit was passing – I knew it not –
Beyond the light of the sun!
And the world thou hast left has a radiance caught
From the glory that thou hast won.
And my soul arises and follows thine
Up the luminous heavenward slope;
For thy beautiful footprints make earth divine
With the glow of a deathless hope.
(Lucy Larcom)
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