1. ۱Day!
2. ۲Faster and more fast,
3. ۳O'er night's brim, day boils at last:
4. ۴Boils, pure gold, o'er the cloud-cup's brim.
5. ۵Where spurting and suppressed it lay,
6. ۶For not a froth-flake touched the rim
7. ۷Of yonder gap in the solid gray
8. ۸Of the eastern cloud, an hour away;
9. ۹But forth one wavelet, then another, curled,
10. ۱۰Till the whole sunrise, not to be suppressed,
11. ۱۱Rose, reddened, and its seething ...
12. ۱۲Flickered in bounds, grew gold, then overflowed the world.
13. ۱۳
14. ۱۴ All service ranks the same with God:
15. ۱۵ If now, as formerly He trod
16. ۱۶ Paradise, His presence fills
17. ۱۷ Our earth, each only as God wills
18. ۱۸ Can work--God's puppets, best and worst,
19. ۱۹ Are we: there is no last nor first.
20. ۲۰
21. ۲۱ The year's at the spring
22. ۲۲ And day's at the morn:
23. ۲۳ Morning's at seven;
24. ۲۴ The hillside's dew-pearled;
25. ۲۵ The lark's on the wing;
26. ۲۶ The snail's on the thorn:
27. ۲۷ God's in His heaven--
28. ۲۸ All's right with the world!
29. ۲۹
30. ۳۰Give her but a least excuse to love me!
31. ۳۱ When--where--
32. ۳۲How--can this arm establish her above me,
33. ۳۳ If fortune fixed her as my lady there,
34. ۳۴There already, to eternally reprove me?
35. ۳۵ ("Hist!"--said Kate the queen;
36. ۳۶But "Oh," cried the maiden, binding her tresses,
37. ۳۷ "'Tis only a page that carols unseen,
38. ۳۸Crumbling your hounds their messes!")
39. ۳۹
40. ۴۰Is she wronged?--To the rescue of her honour,
41. ۴۱ My heart!
42. ۴۲Is she poor?--What costs it to be styled a donor?
43. ۴۳ Merely an earth to cleave, a sea to part.
44. ۴۴But that fortune should have thrust all this upon her!
45. ۴۵ ("Nay, list!"--bade Kate the queen;
46. ۴۶And still cried the maiden, binding her tresses,
47. ۴۷ "'Tis only a page that carols unseen,
48. ۴۸Fitting your hawks their jesses!")