Pippa Passes Part II Noon
Scene
—Over Orcana
The house of Jules, who crosses its threshold with Phene: she is silent, on which Jules begins—Do not die,
Phene
Scene
—Over Orcana
The house of Jules, who crosses its threshold with Phene: she is silent, on which Jules begins—Do not die,
Phene
There are songs for the morning and songs for the night,
For sunrise and sunset, the stars and the moon;
But who will give praise to the fulness of light,
And sing us a song of the glory of noon
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass,—The finger-points look through like rosy blooms:
Your eyes smile peace
The pasture gleams and glooms'Neath billowing skies that scatter and amass
All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
When the night wind howls in the chimney cowls, and the bat in themoonlight flies,
And inky clouds, like funeral shrouds, sail over the midnight skies -When the footpads quail at the night-bird's wail, and black dogsbay the moon,
Then is...