The Evernew

I walk as one who, walking through the night From village unto village far withdrawn, Sees here and there a light and men who wake With confused murmur growing unto dawn.

And suddenly the birds start into song, And cart-wheels creak along the flinty ways, And men are in the field, and lights are out, While the first sunbeam fills the air with praise.

So louder, as I wander through the world, Sounds that glad anthem of the glimmering day, And lamps of men that grope within the dark Flash quick and quicker through the morning grey,

Ere they grow dim. O glance a thousandwise Through cold airs wreathing round my brow, Ye heralds of a sun, before whose face, The whiles ye fade, men hasten forth to bow.

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