Fear it has faded and the night: <br /> The bells all peal the hour of nine: <br />The schoolgirls hastening through the light <br /> Touch the unknowable Divine. <br /> <br />What leavening in my heart would bide! <br /> Full dreams a thousand deep are there: <br />All luminants succumb beside <br /> The unbound melody of hair. <br /> <br />Joy the long timorous takes the flute: <br /> Valiant with colour songs are born: <br />Love the impatient absolute <br /> Lives as a Saviour in the morn <br /> <br />Get thou behind me Shadow-Death! <br /> Oh ye Eternities delay! <br />Morning is with me and the breath <br /> Of schoolgirls hastening down the way.<br /><br />John Shaw Neilson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/schoolgirls-hastening/
