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First Line: Claimed of gold heat
Last Line: "in a wind, like the trot of a red horse, on a walk, trotted for miles!"
Subject(s): Dawn; Fairies; Storms; Sunrise; Elves


(Introduction)

Claimed of gold heat,
When the wild wind came inflamed, ere the dawn of the blue, blue morn-dawn,
In autumn golden,
Moved and brought up by white hands olden,
I saw a boy's death mirrored in silvery water, near the beginning day, --
Birth work of an old red and white potter,
'Neath the reddened sky of blue, there came unto me
Old black-winged sorrow
Bearing a red-ended arrow.
* * *
(Later: Night. A voice:)

"There is Mars,
(Keeping watch o'er death) --
The imaginary guardian of our breath."
* * *


But shadows gave the fore-warning,
Of a terrible evening storm,
And thunder gave triumphant blasts
And lightning gold warning,
And icy winds chanted
Death warnings as they cast
Their birth and death songs.


(Finally: in the morning.)

In the simple white dawn,
Suffusing the heavens, the triumphant morn,
Twas the Red Rose of the dawn,
That came forth in the form
Of a red banner above skyline,
(Eh? crimson and fine!)
By the yellow, the intense, the glorious Sun,
Above dust,
Though 'twas hot and dun
On this crust.

* * *

(In the sunshine, I heard a voice:)

"Oh, Farewell, farewell, farewell!
The flight silver of chimes,
And the echoes of Peace in the Norway pines,
And the lost acres of silver thought,
The penned miles of aching thought,
And Life's Roses in the heat,
On nights cloudy and fleet."

"And the soft incense of the wreath
Of the mistletoe gone.
Oh, the silver-white moments in fire;
Of the pyre.
As, from a funereal fountain
Gushed a black mountain.
Oh, the hush!
Oh, the sound of the dust!
Oh, the rotting red leaves
Under the eaves --
In a wind, like the trot of a red horse, on a walk, trotted for miles!"





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