Great Streets of silence led away 1
To Neighborhoods of Pause－
Here was no Notice－no Dissent
No Universe－no laws－
By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night 5
The Bells at Distance called－
But Epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.
To Neighborhoods of Pause－
Here was no Notice－no Dissent
No Universe－no laws－
By Clocks, 'twas Morning, and for Night 5
The Bells at Distance called－
But Epoch had no basis here
For Period exhaled.
(F.1166/J.1159)
[1] Streets:: a passage between continuous lines of persons or things (OED 2e); passages between lines of words. led away:: from the real to a book's world.
[2] Neighborhoods:: friendly areas. Pause:: a break in reading.
[4] No Universe, Laws:: no restriction of rules or laws.
[5, 6] Morning, Night:: reading whole day.
[7] Epoch, no basis:: a fiction doesn't need to follow the time in history.
[8] Period:: a complete sentence of several clauses.