| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Night Piece | | By James Joyce |
| | | GAUNT in gloom | |
| The pale stars their torches, | |
| Enshrouded, wave. | |
| Ghost-fires from heaven’s far verges faint illume— | |
| Arches on soaring arches— | 5 |
| Night’s sin-dark nave. | |
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| Seraphim | |
| The lost hosts awaken | |
| To service, till | |
| In moonless gloom each lapses, muted, dim, | 10 |
| Raised when she has and shaken | |
| Her thurible. | |
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| And long and loud | |
| To night’s nave upsoaring, | |
| A star-knell tolls— | 15 |
| As the bleak incense surges, cloud on cloud, | |
| Voidward from the adoring | |
| Waste of souls. | | | | |
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