XXXV.

But the dark hours wring forth the hidden might

Which hath lain bedded in the silent soul,

A treasure all undreamt of,—as the night

Calls out the harmonies of streams that roll

Unheard by day. It seem’d as if her breast

Had hoarded energies, till then suppress’d

Almost with pain, and bursting from control,

And finding first that hour their pathway free:

Could a rose brave the storm, such might her emblem be!