Not with drums Light comes. It knocks Upon no door; From no dim pane It stirs the dust Or sweeps the skein That is the spider's airy fane. It turns no locks. It has no language to implore The just, No thunder to awake The sluggard and the rake. It wields no instruments of doom To raise the sombre siege of gloom; It spins no strategems with mirth. But to the wide, clear-windowed room It is rebirth.