The Secret Splendour

I woke up in the night and found

 Seduced silver all around,

A cool conspiracy the air.

Touched by a dream I saw not there.

The shadow in the moon's white core

Lay like a love of the unseen—

The world to which I had clung before

Withdrew behind an alien sheen.

I, groping through that veil of frost,

Spying, eavesdropping upon life,

Caught it like an unfaithful wife

On whom had come the Holy Ghost.

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