But lidded bulbs close heavily once more;

They wait-for Sotho to unlatch the door!

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Now, through the veil of troubled visions deep

Is draped to blind me to the secret ways

Leading through blackness to the realm of sleep

That haunts me all my jumbled nights and days,

I feel the dim path that will let me keep

That rendezvous in Yith where Sotho plays.

At last I see a glowing turret shine,