Sidney Lanier (Сидни Ланьер)

Night and Day

The innocent, sweet Day is dead.
Dark Night hath slain her in her bed.
O, Moors are as fierce to kill as to wed!
-- Put out the light, said he.

A sweeter light than ever rayed
From star of heaven or eye of maid
Has vanished in the unknown Shade.
-- She’s dead, she’s dead, said he.

Now, in a wild, sad after-mood
The tawny Night sits still to brood
Upon the dawn-time when he wooed.
-- I would she lived, said he.

Star-memories of happier times,
Of loving deeds and lovers’ rhymes,
Throng forth in silvery pantomimes.
-- Come back, O Day! said he.

1. The Revenge of Hamish
2. The Tournament
3. Thar’s More in the Man Than Thar Is in the Land
4. A Song of the Future
5. Clover

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