Fields, folds, and moving clouds. The awful and adored

Arches and endless aisles of vacancy, the fair

Void of sheer heights and hollows hailed him as her lord

And lover in the highest, to whom all heaven lay bare!

Till from that tower of ecstasy, that baffled height,

Stooping, he sank; and slowly on the world’s wide way

Walked, with great wing on wing, the merciless, proud Might,

Hunting the huddled and lone reaches for his prey

Down the dim shore—and faded in the crumbling light.

Slowly the dusk covered the land. Like a great hymn