A Draft of Light by John Hollander

Author:John Hollander [Hollander, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-49491-7
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2012-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Lying on a leaf a waiting

Firefly looked out across

Terraces and

Borders toward an upper window

Through whose half-drawn curtains could be

Seen a candle steadily

Through the failing

Daylight burning, seeing which the

Modest insect had bewailed the

“Littleness of his own light”

Till another

Wiser glowworm by him whispered

Wait a little: it will soon be

Dark, the candle then will seem

To be flaring

Up into some higher brightness,

Till in cool illumination

Flashing inner and unseen

There will come a

Sudden understanding then of

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