PETITION


WHEN Night has opened her ten thousand eyes

And earth has muted those entangled cries,

Might such a silence on this heart descend ;

Might inmost eyes awaken, day-trance end.


Cloud-darkened sky or vapours dank from earth

Bedim the growing vision, mar the worth

Of fairer reckoning. Enhance this will—

Make mind's own zenith clear—all swirls of passion still.


October 14, 1936.


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