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IN ANDELYS: TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: 10, by                    
First Line: Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the
Last Line: Wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Paradise


Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the light of day
were softly-tinted blue, the distant trees were blue and in the heavens remote,
wandered a little moon, white as a dreaming soul.

It is by such a light that I have seen thee thrice -- O Fay -- before I lived,
in life, and in a dream, in holy Paradise, at five, and at thirteen.

It is by such a light in the bed-room of vacations the slumbering children dream
of sheep with white and curly wool.

It is by such a light that young girls play the piano beside great, open
windows, dreaming of the young girls of yesterday.

It is by such a light that the eglantine's athrill . . . dream of rambler-roses
twining ancient walls and the hens of the cock of the church, grey heads beneath
their wings.

It is by such a light that little rabbits close their rounded eyes, thinking of
small, pink carrots.

It is by lights like these, it is by such a light, that all that is sweet takes
place in the thoughts of children, of animals and of flowers.

It is by such a light that I have seen thee thrice -- O Fay -- before I lived,
in life, and in a dream, in holy Paradise, at five, and at thirteen.

Fair evening longed for birth. The firmament was pure. Life and the light of day
were softly-tinted blue, the distant trees were blue and very high in heaven
wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul.





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