Are thine eyes weary? is thy heart too sick
\nTo struggle any more with doubt and thought,
\nWhose formless veil draws darkening now and thick
\nAcross thee, e’en as smoke-tinged mist-wreaths brought
\nDown a fair dale to make it blind and nought?
\nArt thou so weary that no world there seems
\nBeyond these four walls, hung with pain and dreams?<\/p>\n
Look out upon the real world, where the moon,
\nHalf-way ‘twixt root and crown of these high trees,
\nTurns the dread midnight into dreamy noon,
\nSilent and full of wonders, for the breeze
\nDied at the sunset, and no images,
\nNo hopes of day, are left in sky or earth –
\nIs it not fair, and of most wondrous worth?<\/p>\n
Yea, I have looked and seen November there;
\nThe changeless seal of change it seemed to be,
\nFair death of things that, living once, were fair;
\nBright sign of loneliness too great for me,
\nStrange image of the dread eternity,
\nIn whose void patience how can these have part,
\nThese outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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