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The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows / Have pulled the Immortal Rose; / And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept, / The Polar Dragon slept, / His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep: / When will he wake from sleep?
Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, / With your harmonious choir / Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, / That my old care may cease; / Unfold your flaming wings and cover out of sight / The nets of day and night.
Dim Powers of drowsy thought, let her no longer be / Like the pale cup of the sea, / When winds have gathered and sun and moon burned dim / Above its cloudy rim; / But let a gentle silence wrought with music flow / Whither her footsteps go.