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Shining in dim transparence, the whole of infinity lies Behind the veil that the finger of radiant winter weaves And down on us falls the foliage of stars in glittering sheaves; From out the depths of the forest, the forest obscure of the skies, The wingèd sea with her shadowy floods as of dappled silk Speeds, 'neath the golden fires, her pale immensity o'er; And diamond-rayed, the moonlight, shining along the shore, Bathes the brow of the headlands in radiance as soft as milk. Yonder there flow, untwining and twining their loops anew! The mighty, silvery rivers, through the translucent night; And a glint as of wondrous acids sparkles with magic light the cup that the lake outstretches towards the mountains blue. Everywhere light seems breaking forth into flower and star, Whether on shore in stillness, or wavering on the deep. The islands are nests where silence inviolate doth deep; An ardent nimbus hovers o'er yon horizons far. See, from Nadir to Zenith one aureole doth reach! Of yore, the souls exalted by faith's high mysteries Saw, in the domination of those star-clouded skies, Jehovah's hand resplendent and heard His silent speech. But now the eyes that scan them no longer may there aspire To we some god self-banished—not so, but the intricate Tangle of marvellous problems, the messengers that wait On Measureless Force, and veil her, there on her couch of fire. O cauldrons of life, where matter, adown the eternal day, Pours herself fruitful, seething through paths of scattering flame! O flux of worlds and reflux to other worlds the same! Unending oscillation betwixt newer and for aye! Tumults consumed in whirlpools of speed and sound and light— Violence we nought may reck of!—and yet there falls from thence The vast, unbroken silence, mysterious and intense That makes the peace, the calmness and beauty of the night! O spheres of flame and golden, always more far and high; Abyss to abyss still floating, onward from shade to shade! So far, so high, all reck'ning the wisdom of man has made, Before those giddy numbers must shrink in his hands and die! Shining in dim transparence, the whole of infinity lies Behind the veils that the finger of radiant winter weaves; And down on us falls the foliage of star in glittering sheaves, From out the depths of the forest, the forest obscure of the skies.
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