The Consolation of Philosophy

by Boethius

Book I.

Song III. The Mists Dispelled.

Then the gloom of night was scattered,
  Sight returned unto mine eyes.
So, when haply rainy Caurus
  Rolls the storm-clouds through the skies,
Hidden is the sun; all heaven
  Is obscured in starless night.
But if, in wild onset sweeping,
  Boreas frees day's prisoned light,
All suddenly the radiant god outstreams,
And strikes our dazzled eyesight with his beams.


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