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.

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Far in the dome to where his gaze was lost

The deepening roof shone clear as stones that lie