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First Line: Sky beyond words! Elysian-field
Last Line: Our hopes ran out for sympathy?
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Storms


SKY beyond words! Elysian-field
In sunset air and blush revealed:
To eyes of earth is it so given
To peep at what they dream in heaven?
What angel dropped her rainbow-flowers
In that horizon blue of ours?
And that young moon, whence came she now
But from some calm triunion's brow?

Sky beyond words! and could it pass
That we should lose the magic glass,
And strain to see through our harsh shroud
Anarchies of whirling, smouldering cloud,
Labouring with engines of black force
To hurl sweet Nature from her course?
To lean fanged lightnings can it be
Our hopes ran out for sympathy?





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