Elizabethan days . torm to-night.) Shadows flickering, flying, yetStreaked with yellow, buff and jet,In askance wander round about,Unmindful of the storm without.(Filling with awe each crevice trite,The spirit of the candle-lightBurns radiant with the storm to-night.) Dreams, unmindful of the past,Are coming, leaving, or will lastThrough the darkness noisy fray,Fighting its battle, fraught with day.(But sombre, silent in its might,The spirit of the candle-lightBurns radiant with the storm to-night.) 64 1899. Spirits unseen, unknown, and not, Shimmer, and die, a wasted lot, While raindrops pour
Elizabethan days . torm to-night.) Shadows flickering, flying, yetStreaked with yellow, buff and jet,In askance wander round about,Unmindful of the storm without.(Filling with awe each crevice trite,The spirit of the candle-lightBurns radiant with the storm to-night.) Dreams, unmindful of the past,Are coming, leaving, or will lastThrough the darkness noisy fray,Fighting its battle, fraught with day.(But sombre, silent in its might,The spirit of the candle-lightBurns radiant with the storm to-night.) 64 1899. Spirits unseen, unknown, and not, Shimmer, and die, a wasted lot, While raindrops pour through window shadeEnveloped, sheathed, like icy glade.(Yet, though unconscious of the sight,The spirit of the candle-lightBurns radiant with the storm to-night.) Vanish all but candle-light, Still is this gloomy room to-night. In wood and bush the storm has stopped, And the last blade of rain has dropped. (But in the darkness, breathless quite, The spirit of the candle-light Is dying with the storm to-night.) 65. EPITAPH FOR A DEAD PINE TREE TRAIGHT and noble the pine tree stood,Staunch through years gainst storm and flood,Until the lightnings cruel strokeOn its dark crest, dread hatred broke;Then, dying, to the winds the tree did callTo smite it, from its barkless pall;A skeleton, so bleak and grim,A warning of the tempests vim,Until the north winds kindly gustWill send it tottering to the dust. 1895. 66
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