• The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.

    Herman Melville: The phantom-host has faded quite, Splendor and Terror gone-- Portent or promise--and gives way To pale, meek Dawn.
    Herman Melville (1866). “Battle-pieces and aspects of the war [poems].”, p.148