To speak of sorrow works upon it moves it from its crouched place barring the way to and from the soul's hall — out in the light it shows clear, whet… - Denise Levertov

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To speak of sorrow
works upon it
moves it from its
crouched place barring
the way to and from the soul's hall — out in the light it
shows clear, whether
shrunken or known as
a giant wrath — discrete
at least, where before

its great shadow joined
the walls and roof and seemed
to uphold the hall like a beam.