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Under the Lake he growls and he groans, Tossing and twisting his frosty bones: Grim old Giant! -- but never we Will chop the ice out and set you free; Never we, while the moon rides high, And the stars go by, and the stars go by, As over the gray-glass Lake we fly!
Nearer, nearer, the black shores swing. Laugh and lean while the steel blades sing: Laugh, and slip into silence. -- See! The world is aching with splendor! Free, -- Free of our bodies our light souls fly Up, where the cold moon freezes the sky, -- Up, where the strange stars crowd into Space. -- Oh, have they stared into God's own Face? Folding their flames in the Flame of God, Over His terrible threshold trod?