Night

A. Mary F. Robinson

1857 to 1944

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O night eternal and blue,
Holy and soft above,
You seem to lay on my forehcad
The touch of an infinite love—

The touch of a love that never
Will understand me aright—
Why should you touch me and love me,
O tender and delicate night?

O night, look in with your stars
On the wintry face of despair,
And your stars will eddy and shrivel
As leaves in a gust of the air!