Long ere now Phoebus sunk in western skies
Behind his dreamy hills of tinted rose;
When I in pain my troubled eyelids close
And look upon the world that in me lies
For in the night the silent river flows
In darkness hid the bat unheeded flies:
In my soul's night alas! no calmness lies
With Nature's night too well my horror grows
Darkness I hate for I am like the night
And yet in me no star serenely bright
The clouds of mind and soul so purely clears
But as night with its pall of shades of old
Unheard unseen l sit in heatless cold
Enwrapped in my doubts and in my fears
For in the night the silent river flows
In darkness hid the bat unheeded flies:
In my soul's night alas! no calmness lies
With Nature's night too well my horror grows
Darkness I hate for I am like the night
And yet in me no star serenely bright
The clouds of mind and soul so purely clears
But as night with its pall of shades of old
Unheard unseen l sit in heatless cold