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I see no beauty shining in the east / At dawn, nor when the glowing sun has risen, / And shot a million rays into night's prison -- / No lovely scene on which my eyes would feast.
And in the west at eve I see no light / That enters my whole being like a flash / Of bursting joy -- swift sky rent ere the crash / Of kissing clouds acclaim their passion's might.
My eyes have seen the marvel of the world, / All joys transfigured into mighty bliss -- / The great creative moment, sight divine, / When earth, and sky, and sea, were torn and hurled / Apart, to yield her soul's ecstatic kiss, / Which shed all beauty 'neath one glance of mine.