Just to cover all the bases, your quotation is the
last two lines of RK's "A Masque of Plenty"
collected in "Departmental Ditties". The intriguing
part lies
in the opening "Argument" to the poem which finishes
'and saw that it was good'.
This is an almost direct quote from Genesis 1:4:
"And God saw the light, that it was good: and God
divided
the light from the darkness."
"Between a sleep and a sleep" is from the Chorus of
Swinburne's "Atlanta in Calydon". The last two lines
run:
"His life is a watch or a vision
Between a sleep and a sleep."
I leave it for someone more knowledgeable than I am
to
analyse and compare these two works.
Yours
David Page
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