Wonder-Hand

ACROSS the darkness of the night

wonder-Hand she stretched to me,

But the vague outlines of her face

Hid in a veil of mystery!

The stars burnt out and the wan moon

Peeped from behind a last dim cloud;

But we marched on through barriers

Of rugged hills, the brazen shroud,

The desert silences of time;

A narrow pathway bare and lone

We followed, drunk with the delight

Of conquering some unknown

Riches of a gold spirit sun

Beyond the haunted gulfs of night.

The veil dissolved; the hand I held

Bore up a ame of the In
nite!

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