A Song of Arno

by Grace Ellery Channing-Stetson

It is the hour when Arno turns   Her gold to chrysoprase; When each low-hanging star outburns   Its faint, mysterious rays, As from the prison of faery urns   Which faery hands upraise. It is the hour when life’s constraint   A moment’s ease is given; When Earth is like a holy saint,   Stilled, sanctified, and shriven, And the deep-breathing heart grows faint   To be so near to Heaven.

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