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Lowell, James Russell - There is a light within her eyes
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004501
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Poems of James Russell Lowell
There is a light within her eyes
Like gleams of wandering fire flies
From light to shade it leaps and moves
Whenever in her soul arise
The holy shape of things she loves
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But while I watch the stars arise
In the evening of her eyes
I love it, yet I almost dread
To think what it foreshadoweth
And when I muse how I have read
That such strange light betokened death –
Instead of fire fly gleams I see
Wild corpse lights gliding waveringly