Richard Watson Gilder (Ричард Уотсон Гилдер)
The New Day. Part 1. Interlude
The sun rose swift and sent a golden gleam Across the moving waters to the land; Then for a little while it seemed to stand In a clear place, midway 'twixt sea and cloud; Whence rising swift again it past behind Full many a long and narrow cloud-wrought beam Encased in gold unearthly, that was mined From out the hollow caverns of the wind. These first revealed its face and next did shroud, While still the daylight grew, and joy thereby Lit all the windy stretches of the sky— Until a shadow darkened from the east And sprang upon the ocean like a beast.
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