| THE DAY WITH A WHITE MARK All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness: Was it elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part Of the cloudy crested, fifty-league-long, loud uplifted wave Of a journeying angel's transit roaring over and over through my heart? My garden's spoiled, my holidays are cancelled, the omens harden; The plann'd and unplann'd miseries deepend; the knots draw tight. Reason kept telling me all day my mood was out of season. It was, too. In the dark ahead the breakers are only white. Yet I—I could have kissed the very scullery taps. The colour of My day was like a peacock's chest. In at each sense there stole Ripplings and dewy sprinkles of delight that with them drew Fine threads of memory through the vibrant thickness of the soul. From Poems
Poems. Copyright © 1964 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Preface copyright © 1964 by Walter Hooper. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. | 
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