6.3: There's a certain slant of light

ENGL 206: World Literature II · LibreTexts

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    There's a certain slant of light,

    On winter afternoons,

    That oppresses, like the weight

    Of cathedral tunes.

    Heavenly hurt it gives us;

    We can find no scar,

    But internal difference

    Where the meanings are.

    None may teach it anything,

    'T is the seal, despair,—

    An imperial affliction

    Sent us of the air.

    When it comes, the landscape listens,

    Shadows hold their breath;

    When it goes, 't is like the distance

    On the look of death.

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