Doubt Heralding Vision + 

An angel saw me sitting by a brook, + 

Pleased with the silence, and the melodies + 

Of wind and water which did fall and rise: + 

He gently stirred his plumes and from them shook + 

An outworn doubt, which fell on me and took + 

The shape of darkness, hiding all the skies, + 

Blinding the sun, but giving to my eyes + 

An inextinguishable wish to look; + 

When, lo! thick as the buds of spring there came, + 

Crowd upon crowd, informing all the sky, + 

A host of splendours watching silently, + 

With lustrous eyes that wept as if in blame, + 

And waving hands that crossed in lines of flame, + 

And signalled things I hope to hold although I die! + 