DESOLATION

DESOLATIONIt seems to me that I have lived alone—Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:As light on coldest marble, or the gleamOf moons eternal on a land of stone,The dawns have been to me. I have but knownThe silence of a frozen land extreme—A sole attending silence, all supremeAs is the sea’s enormous monotone.Upon the icy desert of my days,No bright mirages are, but iron raysOf dawn relentless, and the bitter lightOf all-revealing noon.**** Alone, I craveThe friendly clasp of finite arms, to saveMy spirit from the ravening Infinite.

It seems to me that I have lived alone—Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:As light on coldest marble, or the gleamOf moons eternal on a land of stone,The dawns have been to me. I have but knownThe silence of a frozen land extreme—A sole attending silence, all supremeAs is the sea’s enormous monotone.Upon the icy desert of my days,No bright mirages are, but iron raysOf dawn relentless, and the bitter lightOf all-revealing noon.**** Alone, I craveThe friendly clasp of finite arms, to saveMy spirit from the ravening Infinite.

It seems to me that I have lived alone—Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:As light on coldest marble, or the gleamOf moons eternal on a land of stone,The dawns have been to me. I have but knownThe silence of a frozen land extreme—A sole attending silence, all supremeAs is the sea’s enormous monotone.Upon the icy desert of my days,No bright mirages are, but iron raysOf dawn relentless, and the bitter lightOf all-revealing noon.**** Alone, I craveThe friendly clasp of finite arms, to saveMy spirit from the ravening Infinite.

It seems to me that I have lived alone—Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:As light on coldest marble, or the gleamOf moons eternal on a land of stone,The dawns have been to me. I have but knownThe silence of a frozen land extreme—A sole attending silence, all supremeAs is the sea’s enormous monotone.

It seems to me that I have lived alone—

Alone, as one that liveth in a dream:

As light on coldest marble, or the gleam

Of moons eternal on a land of stone,

The dawns have been to me. I have but known

The silence of a frozen land extreme—

A sole attending silence, all supreme

As is the sea’s enormous monotone.

Upon the icy desert of my days,No bright mirages are, but iron raysOf dawn relentless, and the bitter lightOf all-revealing noon.**** Alone, I craveThe friendly clasp of finite arms, to saveMy spirit from the ravening Infinite.

Upon the icy desert of my days,

No bright mirages are, but iron rays

Of dawn relentless, and the bitter light

Of all-revealing noon.**** Alone, I crave

The friendly clasp of finite arms, to save

My spirit from the ravening Infinite.


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