Poem by Richard Watson Gilder

The New Day. Part 1. Interlude

The sun rose swift and sent a golden gleam
Across the moving waters to the land;
Then for a little while it seemed to stand
In a clear place, midway 'twixt sea and cloud;
Whence rising swift again it past behind
Full many a long and narrow cloud-wrought beam
Encased in gold unearthly, that was mined
From out the hollow caverns of the wind.
These first revealed its face and next did shroud,
While still the daylight grew, and joy thereby
Lit all the windy stretches of the sky—

Until a shadow darkened from the east
And sprang upon the ocean like a beast.

1. The New Day. Part 3. 23. Song (My love grew with the growing night)
2. The Celestial Passion. Part 2. 3. A Madonna of Fra Lippo Lippi
3. The New Day. Part 3. 6. “Love Me Not, Love, for That I First Loved Thee”
4. The New Day. Part 3. 7. Body and Soul
5. The New Day. Part 3. 11. “Once Only”

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