Of soundless winter, I have heard the same

Splendor speak forth, and utter the one name

Of Life, the dreadful, the magnificent.

All afternoon the passion of heaven spent

On earth its fiery fury in blind, bright

Lightnings of dread and laughters of delight

Down shuddering deeps of shaken thunder, where

The delirious longing loosed its sorrowing hair

Of wind and shower and overshadowing cloud

Across the belovèd face, in darkness bowed