at hear thee hear in heaven the sound of widening wings
gigantic,
Eyes that see the cloud-lift westward see thy darkening brows
divine;
Wings whose measure is the limit of the limitless Atlantic,
Brows that bend, and bid the sovereign sea submit her soul to
thine.

III

Twelve days since is it--twelve days gone,
Lord of storm, that a storm-bow shone
Higher than sweeps thy sublime dark wing,
Fair as dawn is and sweet like spring?

Never dawn in the deep wide east
Spread so splendid and strange a feast,
Whence the soul as it drank and fed
Felt such rapture of wonder shed.

Never spring in the wild wood's heart
Felt such flowers at her footfall start,
Born of earth, as arose on sight
Born of heaven and of storm and light.

Stern and sullen, the grey grim sea
Swelled and strove as in toils, though free,
Free as heaven, and as heaven sublime,
Clear as heaven of the toils of time.

IV

Suddenly, sheer from the heights to the depths of the sky and the
sea,
Sprang from the darkness alive as a vision of life to be
Glory triune and transcendent of colour afar and afire,
Arching and darkening the darkness with light as of dream or
desire.
Heaven, in the depth of its height, shone wistful and wan from
above:
Earth from beneath, and the sea, shone stricken and breathless with
love.
As a shadow may shine, so shone they; as ghosts of the viewless
blest,
That sleep hath sight of alive in a rapture of sunbright rest,
The green earth glowed and the grey sky gleamed for a wondrous
while;
And the storm's full frown was crossed by the light of its own deep
smile.
As the darkness of thought and of passion is touched by the light
that gives
Life deathless as love from the depth of a spirit that sees and
lives,
From the soul of a seer and a singer, wherein as a scroll unfurled
Lies open the scripture of light and of darkness, the word of the
world,
So, shapeless and measureless, lurid as anguish and haggard as
crime,
Pale as the front of oblivion and dark as the heart of time,
The wild wan heaven at its height was assailed and subdued and made
More fair than the skies th