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I.

 Darkness,—death.

 Light,—life (on earth).

 day,—one’s duration of life.

 Sun,—one’s life.

 black’ning height,—hour of death.

 quiver of the planets,—thoughts, desires, longings, hopes.

 arrows,—faith in the future.

 iron-plated breast of Night,—gloom of one’s death.

 streams of living blood,—hope others receive from the Christian’s death.

 dire,—i. e., dire only to Darkness.

 sorrowing sea,—sorrowing friends.

 skyed in the doming flood,—acts, deeds, words, hopes, etc., of the dead, reflected in humanity and especially in the hearts of friends.

II.

 Reviving Sun,—soul, on morning of resurrection.

 eastern gray,—dawning of the morning of the resurrection day.

 mail of Night,—sleep of death.

 Last sonnet closes all life on earth, triumphs over death, and brings the resurrection day.

 Last two lines begin and indefinitely extend the Life Eternal.

This may aid somewhat. Too close an interpretation cannot be permitted in any poem: ’twould make some of the most exquisite poetic thought of literature ridiculous and nonsensical. The true poetic nature never needs more in the interpretation of any poem than the title and the naked poem itself to suggest thoughts and images infinitely more beautiful than explanation can possibly make them.