Hearing the dawn-wind stir,

Know that the present strength of night is broke

Though no dawn threaten her

Till dawn’s appointed hour—so Virgil died,

Aware of change at hand, and prophesied

Change upon all the Eternal Gods had made

And on the Gods alike—

Fated as dawn but, as the dawn, delayed

Till the just hour should strike—

A Star new-risen above the living and dead;