. Love and the light; an idyl of the Westland ... sion. Seemed it so to him there gazing,Brave heart, though he shook and trembledEre the dark had come to dawning,From that fearful brink recoiling;Shrinking back from more beholdingOf the symboled immolation. Trembled less with fear than bodingOf some occult mystic sad the sacrificial showing. He, a dreamer, like that Joseph^Glorified from pit and with a wholesome sorrow,Ending in his exaltation;Like him was he doomed, foredestinedTo the grief that bringeth the gloom that breaks in glo
. Love and the light; an idyl of the Westland ... sion. Seemed it so to him there gazing,Brave heart, though he shook and trembledEre the dark had come to dawning,From that fearful brink recoiling;Shrinking back from more beholdingOf the symboled immolation. Trembled less with fear than bodingOf some occult mystic sad the sacrificial showing. He, a dreamer, like that Joseph^Glorified from pit and with a wholesome sorrow,Ending in his exaltation;Like him was he doomed, foredestinedTo the grief that bringeth the gloom that breaks in glory? Thoughts like these were round him hovering,0*er him as a storm-cloud the train was onward he journeyed toward the Sunset,Toward the land of bitter waters. 42 LOVE AND THE LIGHT Desert land redeemed and smiling,Sleeping land from slumber wakened,Land of villages and of valleys mountain-girdled,Mekka^* of his earnest of memorys fondest dreamings;Thither drawn as steel to IVRETURN DREAMS may soar to highest Heaven,And the dreamer wake in than fact is fancy,Lifting cup to lip, then downwardDashing all, joys nectar spilling. Fortune frowned upon his wooing;Disappointment dogged his footstepsFrom the hour of his returningTo where hope had lit a welcomeAs a window-shining back, with needless from loneliness and wandering. False the hope, the welcome the bright anticipation. 44 LOVE AND THE LIGHT She for whom his heart had hungeredThrough long months of separation,Was no more a modest dwellerMid the scenes her daily presenceOnce enlivened and illumined. Wealth had come, and with it absence—Absence not alone of of mind was playing truant,Calm content had fled to had been changed for mansion,Village for the town forsaken. Far remote from first she, social queen resplendent. Gone?—he questioned in amazemen
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