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IiXL—A VISION.
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Arc ambient garment encircled her, Woven...
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( 313 )
( 313 )
Iixl—A Vision.
IiXL—A VISION . »
Arc Ambient Garment Encircled Her, Woven...
Arc ambient garment encircled her , Woven of mystic air ,
And o'er her brow in beauty fell Long threads of golden hair .
A net of cloud-wrought silver Her tresses did ensnare ,
And when I tried to touch her , She vanished into air .
I sought her hand to clasp it ,
Her spirit-hand in mine , For there it lay like a rosy shell
Seen through the frothy brine . And sense-entrancing odors
In mists encompassed were , 'From "flowers which had fainted
In giving their breath to her . But as I prest her airy hand , %
It seemed to melt away , Though it lefb an impress where it touched
Like the kiss of a vanished day . And as she floated by me ,
She kindled my room with , light , Like a star that has drifted earthward
To say to the world " Good Night " Had she then a " Good Night" for me ,
Down on this earth so far ? Yes—and had brought me a lily from Heaven ,
, To lay in my bosom and wear . At last to words her lips trembled
As petals of roses might , When the zephyrs stop to kiss them
As they pause in wayward night . " This lily pure was sent to thee ,
By one who could not stay , But just behind the veil she waits
Thine immortality . " This said , —she smiled and kist it ,
On my pillow there it lay , „ Then into a turret of darkness
She floated in cloud away .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/25/
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