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The woods feel unfamiliar in the ashen light.

The water was beaten into seething foam around the boat also; between the billows the long swell was red with the reflection of the fire, but the sea was black as ink beyond the line of the Castle Isle, save where, at the farthest line of wave and sky, a streak of ashen light shone in the darkness.

But, rescued from the funeral pyre, Life's ashen, light residuum Lay soft, and, spent the cleansing fire, The urn held sweet the body's sum,� The sum of all that earth may claim Of the soul's butterfly, soul passed,� All that is left of spended flame Upon the tripod at the last.

At noon there was no sunshine, only a wan, ashen light that suffused the sky.

When at last all that could be done had been done, the east was beginning to take on a sort of ashen light—the forerunner of dawn.