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 Spirit of Twilight, you are like a song That sleeps, and waits a singer,—like a hymn That God finds lovely and keeps near Him long, Till it is choired by aureoled cherubim.

Spirit of Twilight, in the golden gloom Of dreamland dim I sought you, and I found A woman sitting in a silent room Full of white flowers that moved and made no sound.

These white flowers were the thoughts you bring to all, And the room's name is Mystery where you sit, Woman whom we call Twilight, when night's pall You lift across our Earth to cover it.

TO A THRUSH

Sing clear, O! throstle, Thou golden-tongued apostle And little brown-frocked brother Of the loved Assisian! Sing courage to the mother, Sing strength into the man, For they, who in another May Trod Hope's scant wine from grapes of pain, Have tasted in thy song to-day The bitter-sweet red lees again. To them in whose sad May-time thou Sang'st comfort from thy maple bough,