1898 · CLOSE READING
Songs of the Spirit
Songs of the Spirit (1898), PDF p. 91
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THE VISIONS OF THE ORDEAL.
THE mind with visions clouded,
(Asleep ? Awake ?)
By bloodless shades enshrouded,
(By whom, and for whose sake ?)
With visions dimly lighted,
By its own shade affrighted,
In its own light benighted,
The doors of hell may shake.
Unbidden spring the spectres
(Whence come, where bound ?)
To baffle those protectors
Whose wings are broad around.
Uprise they and upbraid,
Till life shrinks back afraid,
And death itself dismayed
Sinks back to the profound.
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