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
âLittleness of his own lightâ
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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