The Chrysoberyl
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Track 1
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And let Love's scarlet flood transfigure me.
All the long hours of the indifferent day:
Men say there is a stone shines green alway
The working world, I thrust my sheaths away.
But blazes scarlet when the night draws on:
Has touched me and transfigured; my own fire
I am a chrysoberyl, and 'tis night.
All day I hide myself in lucent green.
I and my heart are like that changing stone.
I that was dark and dull am burning bright;
Beacons me to the place of heart's desire.
I cast aside my veil and bid it be,
Is here, and I am changed. The changeless light
But when the moon makes beautiful and clean
I am a chrysoberyl, and the night
Through the long hours of the indifferent day,
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