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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEDUSA, by ROBERT KELLEY WEEKS
First Line: One calm and cloudless winter night
Last Line: O love that turns to stone!
First Line: One calm and cloudless winter night
Last Line: O love that turns to stone!
ONE calm and cloudless winter night,
Under a moonless sky,
Whence I had seen the gracious light
Of sunset fade and die,
I stood alone a little space,
Where tree nor building bars
Its outlook, in a desert place,
The best to see the stars.
No sound was in the frosty air,
No light below the skies;
I looked above, and unaware
Looked in Medusa's eyes: --
The eyes that neither laugh nor weep,
That neither hope nor fear,
That neither watch nor dream nor sleep,
Nor sympathize nor sneer;
The eyes that neither spurn nor choose,
Nor question nor reply,
That neither pardon nor accuse,
That yield not nor defy;
The eyes that hide not nor reveal,
That trust not nor betray,
That acquiesce not nor appeal, --
The eyes that never pray.
O love that will not be forgot!
O love that leaves alone!
O love that blinds and blesses not!
O love that turns to stone!
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