THE MOON MAIDEN'S SONG.

Sleep! Cast thy canopy

Over this sleeper's brain,

Dim grow his memory,

When he awake again.

Love stays a summer night,

Till lights of morning come;

Then takes her wingèd flight

Back to her starry home.

Sleep! Yet thy days are mine;

Love's seal is over thee:

Far though my ways from thine,

Dim though thy memory.

Love stays a summer night,

Till lights of morning come;

Then takes her winged flight

Back to her starry home.