IN the core of this shadowy world

A shadow less place

Where Sorrow's dark wings are unfurled,

Banished Death's trace.

Pinions of sheer delight

Conquer pain ;

Self-subsistent Light

Comes again.

Shifting and sunder hood

This cannot mar ;

Quenchless, unriven stood

Love's single star.

How manifold disguises

Teemed from the One :

Loaned iterance suffices—

Till the play is done.