Beyond.
Reading edition
AND the Angel said “Nay! “But reckon the years of your life once again, “Not a thousand, one day, “But one day, as a thousand years!” Then How clear it all seemed! I had lived, and I knew it not—Lived! And I thought I but dreamed, So brief a time-space I had lived. * * * * * * And the Angel said “Read!” And the story of life op’ed before me; Wakened Soul! Small the need, Swift mem’ry the page will restore thee; “But read! Now thou darest, “There is nothing that thou would’st amend, “For that hour was life’s rarest, “When a Soul did’st thine own comprehend.”