Transfigured Life
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
As growth of form or momentary glance In a child’s features will recall to mind The father’s with the mother’s face combin’d,— Sweet interchange that memories still enhance: And yet, as childhood’s years and youth’s advance, The gradual mouldings leave one stamp behind, Till in the blended likeness now we find A separate man’s or woman’s countenance:— So in the Song, the singer’s Joy and Pain, Its very parents, evermore expand To bid the passion’s fullgrown birth remain, By Art’s transfiguring essence subtly spann’d; And from that song-cloud shaped as a man’s hand There comes the sound as of abundant rain.
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