VIII.— DELIVERANCE

Out of the Night! out of the Night I come:

Free at last: the whole world is my home:

I have lost self: I look not on myself again,

But if I do I see a man among men.

Out of the Night! out of the Night, O Flesh:

Soul I know not from Body within thy mesh:

Accepting all that is, I cannot divide the same:

I accept the smoke because I accept the flame.

Out of the Night! out of the Night, O Friends:

O all my dead, think ye our friendship ends?

Harold, Kenneth, Dick, many hearts that were true,

While I breathe breath, I am breathing you.

Out of the Night! out of the Night, O Power:

Many a fight to be won, many an awful hour;

Many an hour to wish death ere I go to death,

Many an hour to bless breath ere I cease from breath.

Out of the Night! out of the Night, O Soul:

Give thanks to the Night: Night and Day are the Whole.

I count mere life-breath nothing now I know Life's worth

Lies all in spending! that known, love Life and Earth.