THE POET

Within the marvel of the light, what flower

Of active wonder from quiescence springs!

Is it a throng of luminous white clouds,

Phantoms of some old storm's death-driven Titans,

That float beneath the moon, and speak with voices

Like the last echoes of a thunder spent?

'Tis the forsaken gods, that win a foothold

About the magic circle which the moon

Draws like some old enchantress round the glade.

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