Reconciliation of Light and Darkness



But here, where light and darkness reconciled
Held earth between them as a weanling child
Between the balanced hands of death and birth,
Even as they held the new-born shape of earth
When first life trembled in her limbs and smiled,
Here hope might think to find what hope were worth.

-Algernon Charles Swinburne,
In the Bay, 1878







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