| Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916. | | | I. Serenity
From ‘The Daemon of the world’ | | By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) |
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HOW wonderful is Death, | |
| Death and his brother Sleep! | |
| One pale as yonder wan and hornèd moon, | |
| With lips of lurid blue, | |
| The other glowing like the vital morn, | 5 |
| When throned on ocean’s wave | |
| It breathes over the world: | |
| Yet both so passing strange and wonderful!… | |
| Human eye hath ne’er beheld | |
| A shape so wild, so bright, so beautiful, | 10 |
| As that which o’er the maiden’s charmèd sleep | |
| Waving a starry wand, | |
| Hung like a mist of light. | |
| Such sounds as breathed around like odorous winds | |
| Of waking spring arose, | 15 |
| Filling the chamber and the moonlight sky…. | | | | |
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