Maidenhair

Plato of the clear, dreaming eye and brave
Imaginings, conceived, withdrawn from light,
The hollow of man's heart even as a cave.

With century-slow dropping stalactite
My heart was a dripping tedious in despair.

But yesterday, awhile before I slept:
I wake to find it live with maidenhair
And mosses to the spiky pendants crept.

Great prodigies there are--Johovah's flood
Widening the margin of the Red Sea shore,--
Great marvel when the moon is turned to blood
It is to mortals, yet I marvel more
At the soft rifts, the pushings at my heart,
That lift the great stones of its rock apart.
 

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