REVEALING

The prescience of dreams struck walls away

From mortal fact, and mortal fact revealed,

With myriad voices, potencies concealed

In the dim birth-place of a coming day.

Even as a blind man's fingers wander o'er

His harpstrings, led by sound to dreams of sound,

Till in his soul an eloquence profound

Rises above the petulance and roar

Of the great globe: as in a rush of song

From feathered throats, one, in a mighty wood,

‘ Mid sweet interpositions moves along

The avenues of some predestined good;

So I, dream-nurtured, standing by the sea,

Made levy on the wonders that should be.