Evenstar

Evenstar, still evenstar

If this twilight thou dost shine

On a more unhappy head,

On tears lonelier than mine,

Vainer prayers and deepest sighs,

Take, sweet spirit, thou that art

Comforter of our despairs

All the prayers perforce unsaid,

All the sighs I cannot sigh,

All the tears I cannot shed;

Fill his eyes and flood his heart,

Who, my everlasting kin,

Broods, afar, unknown, apart.

Bring, ah bring him that surcease

From unsolaceable pain,

Which nor prayers, nor tears, nor sighs,

No, nor even the divine

Presence of thy eternal peace

Can, O evenstar, make mine.