LAST night -- how deep the darkness was! And well I knew its depths, because I waded it from shore to shore, Thinking to reach the light no more. She would not even touch my hand. -- The winds rose and the cedars fanned The moon out, and the stars fled back In heaven and hid -- and all was black! But ah! To-night a summons came, Signed with a tear-drop for a name, -- For as I wondering kissed it, lo, A line beneath it told me so. And @3now@1 -- the moon hangs over me A disk of dazzling brilliancy, And every star-tip stabs my sight With splintered glitterings of light! |