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Eyebright

AS a star from the sea new risen,

As the waft of an angel’s wing,

As a lark’s song heard in prison,

As the promise of summer in spring,

She came to me through the stillness,

The shadows that ring me round,

The dungeon of years and illness

Wherein my spirit is bound.

She came with her eyes love-laden,

Her laughter of lily and rose,—

A fragile and flower-like maiden,

In the season of frosts and snows.

She smiled, and the shades departed;

She shone, and the snows were rain:

And he who was frozen-hearted

Bloomed up into love again.