THROUGH the strait gate of passion,      Between the bickering¹ fire
     Where flames of fierce love tremble
     On the body of fierce desire:
 
     To the intoxication²,
     The mind, fused down like a bead³,
     Flees in its agitation⁴
     The flames' stiff speed:
 
     At last to calm incandescence⁵,
     Burned clean by remorseless hate,
     Now, at the day's renascence
     We approach the gate.
 
     Now, from the darkened spaces
     Of fear, and of frightened faces,
     Death, in our awful embraces
     Approached and passed by;
 
     We near the flame-burnt porches
     Where the brands of the angels, like torches
     Whirl,—in these perilous⁶ marches
     Pausing to sigh;
 
     We look back on the withering⁷ roses,
     The stars, in their sun-dimmed closes,
     Where 'twas given us to

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