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A wire had fused; and instantly

From sheerest brilliance he and she

Were dropped into obscurity

More pitchy than original night

To eyes accustomed to the white

Dazzle of incandescent light.

A moment since, they two had stood

Together in youth’s hardihood

In their own world and found it good,

The world their love had made. Alone

Each stood now in a black unknown

Region that turned the heart to stone

An instant, an eternity,

By night divided, he and she—

Till candles came, when laughingly

They chattered with eyes kindling bright:

Yet evermore their world of light

Was haunted by the dread of night.