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WHEN we came out of the wood / Was a great light! / The night uprisen stood / In white.
I wondered, I looked around / It was so fair. The bright / Stubble upon the ground / Shone white
Like any field of snow; / Yet warm the chase / Of faint night-breaths did go / Across my face!
White-bodied and warm the night was, / Sweet-scented to hold in my throat. / White and alight the night was. / A pale stroke smote
The pulse through the whole bland being / Which was This and me; / A pulse that still went fleeing, / Yet did not flee.
After the terrible rage, the death, / This wonder stood glistening? / All shapes of wonder, with suspended breath, / Arrested listening
In ecstatic reverie. / The whole, white Night! -- / With wonder, every black tree / Blossomed outright.
I saw the transfiguration / And the present Host. / Transubstantiation / Of the Luminous Ghost.