The third, the whitest, Charity.

Above the plunging surges play

Dream-like they hovered, day by day.

At last they turned, and bore to me

Green signs of peace thro’ nightfall gray,

No shore forlorn, no loveliest land

Their gentle eye had left unscanned,

’Mid hues of twilight-heliotrope

Or daybreak fires by heaven-breath fanned

Quick visions of celestial grace,—