Poems (Hoffman)/Purity
PURITY
Behold it in the lilies white That star the stagnant mere;Behold it in the snowflakes light That shroud the dying year,And in the spotless pearl that sets The blackness of the cave,And in the whitened surf that frets Above the midnight wave,And in the cloud that piles its snow Above the canyon's gloom,And gleams against the night below In towers of milk-white foam.