And well I knew its depths, because I waded it from shore to shore, Thinking to reach the light no more.
She would not even touch my hand. -- The winds rose and the cedars fanned The moon out, and the stars fled back In heaven and hid -- and all was black!
But ah! To-night a summons came, Signed with a teardrop for a name, -- For as I wondering kissed it, lo, A line beneath it told me so.
And _now_ -- the moon hangs over me A disk of dazzling brilliancy, And every star-tip stabs my sight With splintered glitterings of light!
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