Schoolgirls Hastening

Fear it has faded and the night: The bells all peal the hour of nine: The schoolgirls hastening through the light Touch the unknowable Divine.

What leavening in my heart would bide! Full dreams a thousand deep are there: All luminants succumb beside The unbound melody of hair.

Joy the long timorous takes the flute: Valiant with colour songs are born: Love the impatient absolute Lives as a Saviour in the mom.

Get thou behind me Shadow-Death! Oh ye Eternities delay! Morning is with me and the breath Of schoolgirls hastening down the way.