The Chrysalis + 

Methought I floated sightless, nor did know + 

That I had ears until I heard the cry + 

As of a mighty man in agony: + 

“How long, Lord, shall I lie thus foul and slow? + 

The arrows of thy lightning through me go, + 

And sting and torture me⁠—yet here I lie + 

A shapeless mass that scarce can mould a sigh!” + 

The darkness thinned; I saw a thing below + 

Like sheeted corpse, a knot at head and feet. + 

Slow clomb the sun the mountains of the dead, + 

And looked upon the world: the silence broke! + 

A blinding struggle! then the thunderous beat + 

Of great exulting pinions stroke on stroke! + 

And from that world a mighty angel fled. + 