Light-giving, and of all the beacon-fires,

If they be true; or if, as 'twere a dream,

This sweet light coming hath beguiled our minds.

I see a herald coming from the shore,

With olive boughs o'ershadowed, and the dust,[[306]]

Dry sister-twin of mire,[[307]] announces this,

That neither without voice, nor kindling blaze

Of wood upon the mountains, he will signal

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With smoke from fire, but either he will come,