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LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST by WILLIAM ROSE BENET

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOME FOR THE SADNESS AND SWEETNESS OF FAR EVENING BELLS
Last Line: LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST!
Subject(s): COMFORT; EVENING; GOD; GRIEF; HOPE; LIGHT; MIST; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; SORROW; SADNESS; OPTIMISM;

Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells,
Seeming to call a tryst,
Yet, for my choice, all the comfort and kindness that wells
From lights through the mist.

In the dim dusk so unreal that it seems like a dream
Hard for the heart to resist,
Mellowing the pain of the close-drawing darkness, they stream,
Lights through the mist.

Blurred to new beauty, the blues and the browns and the grays
Shimmer with soft amethyst;
Then God's own glory of gold as it shines through the haze,
Lights through the mist!



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