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Hope as young as dawn from night obscure and olden
Rose again, such power abides in truth's one spell:
Night, if dawn it be that touches her, grows golden;
Tears, if such as angels weep, extinguish hell.

10.

Through the blind loud mills of barren blear-eyed learning

Where in dust and darkness children's foreheads bow,
While men's labour, vain as wind or water turning
Wheels and sails of dreams, makes life a leafless bough,
Fell the light of scorn and pity touched with yearning,
Next, from words that shone as heaven's own kindling brow.^[1]
Stars were these as watch-fires on the world's waste burning,
Stars that fade not in the fourfold sunrise now.^[2]

11.

Now the voice that faints not till all wrongs be wroken

Sounds as might the sun's song from the morning's breast,
All the seals of silence sealed of night are broken,
All the winds that bear the fourfold word are blest.

1. L'Ane. 1880.
2. Les Quatre Vents de L'Esprit. I. Le Livre satirique. II. Le Livre dramatique. III. Le Livre lyrique. IV. Le Livre épique. 1881.