A STAR IN THE NIGHT.

The perfect piteous beauty of thy face

Is like a star the dawning drives away;

Mine eyes may never see in the bright day

Thy pallid halo, thy supernal grace;

But in the night from forth the silent place

Thou comest, dim in dreams, as doth a stray

Star of the starry flock that in the grey

Is seen, and lost, and seen a moment's space.

And as the earth at night turns to a star,

Loved long ago, and dearer than the sun,

So in the spiritual place afar,

At night our souls are mingled and made one,

And wait till one night fall, and one dawn rise,

That brings no noon too splendid for your eyes.