05.05.2009, 18:53
EVENING.
It were as easy we should never sleep,
As pass in dreams half-conscious hours away,
Had Nature willed ; or that the unresting Day
Round tho great world at once his watch should keep :
But thus 'twas set in Paradise; some steep
Seemed there an altar, as the sinking ray
Flamed on its peak; and stars had quiet sway,
Till o'er the barriers mighty morn did leap.
Leap morn, and with thy might bear all things on,
Mounting the arch of noon the fiery-eyed ;
Where art thou now, from that mid-height descending 2
Oh still with songs and love thou art espied
Far off, while Eve comes here, with bell and gun,
And the big plashing waves her Moon attending.
It were as easy we should never sleep,
As pass in dreams half-conscious hours away,
Had Nature willed ; or that the unresting Day
Round tho great world at once his watch should keep :
But thus 'twas set in Paradise; some steep
Seemed there an altar, as the sinking ray
Flamed on its peak; and stars had quiet sway,
Till o'er the barriers mighty morn did leap.
Leap morn, and with thy might bear all things on,
Mounting the arch of noon the fiery-eyed ;
Where art thou now, from that mid-height descending 2
Oh still with songs and love thou art espied
Far off, while Eve comes here, with bell and gun,
And the big plashing waves her Moon attending.