Stanza 5, Page 50 A Being is in her whom she hopes to know, A Word speaks to her heart she cannot hear, A Fate compels whose form she cannot see. In her unconscious orbit through the Void Out of her mindless depths she strives to rise, A perilous life her gain, a struggling joy; A Thought that can conceive but hardly knows Arises slowly in her and creates The idea, the speech that labels more than it lights; A trembling gladness that is less than bliss Invades from all this beauty that must die.
5 A Being is in her whom she hopes to know
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Stanza 5, Page 50
A Being is in her whom she hopes to know,
A Word speaks to her heart she cannot hear,
A Fate compels whose form she cannot see.
In her unconscious orbit through the Void
Out of her mindless depths she strives to rise,
A perilous life her gain, a struggling joy;
A Thought that can conceive but hardly knows
Arises slowly in her and creates
The idea, the speech that labels more than it lights;
A trembling gladness that is less than bliss
Invades from all this beauty that must die.