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Nichols, Robert – From Such was my Singing – from Winter Overnight
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Nichols, Robert – From Such was my Singing
From Aurelia and other poems
FROM WINTER OVERNIGHT
Whiteness and silence all around,
Jewels hang clustered in the trees,
The light aches, and the levels freeze;
And with this sharp sweet air we drink
All serene thoughts a man can think
This side of heaven-until it seems
Heaven's here and not within our dreams:
Heaven just so white, so bright, so still,
As this white air and that white hill,
Now sight is fixed and sound is caught
Into one pure celestial thought.