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"THE LINGERING LIGHT OF THE SUN" 59
"I HAVE DRUNK YOUR TEARS WITH INSATIATE LIPS" 60
SOUND BUTTERFLIES (IN A FOUNTAIN) 61
"EVEN IN SADNESS THOU ART BESIDE ME" 62
"BY THE SEA OF SLEEP WALKS WHITE-ROBED NIGHT" 63
FAREWELL (AFTER A HINDUSTANI SONG) 64
SATIETY 65
"DROWSY THE NOONDAY AIR" 66
CHATTERTON 67
"A SUMMER SONG IT WAS" 68
"WHO KNOWS" 69
THE FIRST VISION 70
SHANTI 71
SANDHYA, SONGS OF TWILIGHT
I
SYMBOLISM
Tongueless the bell!?Lute without a song!?It is not night?It is God's dawn,?Silence its unending song.
Over heart's valley,?In the soul's night,?Through pain's window?Behold! His light!?On Life's Height.
No prayer, now,?Though death-waves roll,?Faith's candle lit,?Beside it sits the soul?Reading Eternity's scroll.
2
SOURCE OF SINGING
A bruised heart,?A wounded soul,
A broken lute,?That is all!
A sad evening,?And a lone star,
Then song reddens--?Sets life's forest afire!
3
With purple shadows the mist measures the infinite sea?That spreads her wave-raiment in lavender, violet, gray, and green; While with thin silver rays a lone star seeks to sound the deeps.
The breeze-wings tire of flight;?The mist-threads weave a rose-fringed dusky drapery?To cover the bare breasts of the dunes from the moon's langour-heavy eyes.
The shadows die in purple silence;?Fades the one star from the sky,?As the dark mist puts out the rose-red moon from its deep.
Pale gleams the lighthouse light;?No warring waves break the peace of sleep tonight?Nor a hungry wind shrieks in pain from the lea.
Under her heavy veil