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Two pale thin clouds did stand upon

The meeting line of sea and sky,

With aspect still and mystic.

I think they did foresee the sun,

And rested on their prophecy

In quietude majestic;

Then flushed to radiance where they stood,

Like statues by the open tomb

Of shining saints half risen.—

The sun!—he came up to be viewed;

And sky and sea made mighty room

To inaugurate the vision!

I oft had seen the dawnlight run,

As red wine, through the hills, and break

Through many a mist's inurning;

But, here, no earth profaned the sun!

Heaven, ocean, did alone partake

The sacrament of morning.

Away with joys fantastical!

I would be humble to my worth,

Self-guarded if self-doubted.

Though here no earthly shadows fall,

I, joying, grieving without earth,

May desecrate without it.