III

Sunset heavens may burn, but never

Know such splendor! There bloomed an ever

Opaline orb, where the sylphid rose

A shape of luminous white; diviner

White than the essence of light that sows

The moons and suns through space; and finer

Than radiance born of a shooting-star,

Or the wild Aurora that streams afar.

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