THE DEBT
SHATTER the manacles of self
And set Love free,
To leave no threat of dyke or delf
'Tween thou and me.
And make the orts and shreds of Night,
If Night must be,
A nothing, through that single light
I find in thee.
As in the aftermath of storm
Great calm we see,
My ways reflect the zenith Form,
Becalmed by thee.
No hope to forge, through grateful gifts,
Equality :
I'd be the Gratefulness that lifts
The spring to thee—
One with the grey dawn's laugh that staves
The dark from thee—
Or surge with the golden-trance-lit waves
Of a sunset sea.
February 17, 1938.
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