Night Lyric

In the world's far edges

Faint and blue,

Where the rocky ledges

Stand in view,

Fades the rosy, tender

Evening light;

Then in starry splendor

Comes the night.

So a stormy lifetime

Comes to close,

Spirit's mortal strifetime

Finds repose.

Faith and toil and vision

Crowned at last,

Failure and derision

Overpast,—

All the daylight splendor

Far above,

Calm and sure and tender

Comes thy love.