Religion

Book I, Song III: The Mists Dispelled

by Boethius c. AD 480–524

Translated by H. R. James (1897) · From The Consolation of Philosophy (1897)

Religion

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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Boethius. “Book I, Song III: The Mists Dispelled.” Translated by H. R. James. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/boethius/2/.

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