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WHENCE came the ember / That touched our young souls' candles first with light; / In shadowy years, too distant to remember, / Where childhood merges backward into night?
I know not, but the halo of those tapers / Has ever since around all nature shone; / And we have looked at life through golden vapors / Because of that one ember touch alone.