asudden

He never looked so strange before; His cheeks, asudden, are grown pale and thin; His very hair seems whiter than it did.

My soul, asudden, thrills with such delight It seems as it had won a birth of wings!

This morning, ere I left my chamber, all the mystery stood Asudden in an awful revelation!

Look upward yonder at the bright clear sky And what it holds—the stars that wander o'er, The moon, the radiance of the splendour-sun: Yet all, if now they first for mortals were, If unforeseen now first asudden shown, What might there be more wonderful to tell, What that the nations would before have dared Less to believe might be?—I fancy, naught— So strange had been the marvel of that sight.

Behold we not The rended basalt ruining amain Down from the lofty mountains, powerless To dure and dree the mighty forces there Of finite time?—for they would never fall Rended asudden, if from infinite Past They had prevailed against all engin'ries Of the assaulting aeons, with no crash.