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[1] More light. Another step, and still more light Opening ahead. It swilled with soft excess, His eyes yet quivering from the dregs of night, And it was nowhere more and nowhere less: In it no shadows were. He could not guess Its fountain. Wondering round around he turned: Still on each side the level glory burned.
[2] Far into the dome to where his gaze was lost The deepening roof shone clear as stones that lie In-shore beneath pure seas. The aisles, that crossed Like forests of white stone their arms on high, Past pillar after pillar dragged his eye In unobscured perspective till the sight Was weary. And there also was the light.