Because their blossoming dreams have never bent

Under the fruit of evil and of good;

And of the embattled flaming multitude

Who rise, wing above wing, flame above flame,

And, like a storm, cry the Ineffable Name,

And with the clashing of their sword blades make

A rapturous music, till the morning break,

And the white hush end all, but the loud beat

Of their long wings, the flash of their white feet.