When the night rests and ruminates <br />As hour after hour strike and pass <br />The sea-waves out of tempest’s clutch <br />How mellow-swish the coast-rocks they lap! <br /> <br />When the night rests and ruminates <br />And houses one by one put off the lights <br />As the stars one by one put on their light <br />How wonder strides on that noble sight! <br /> <br />Sad, sad, sad but noble in the heart: <br />The mind speaks, the tongue is mute, <br />But the hands writes and verses flow <br />And Emotions roll wave after wave of Art.<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-the-night-rests-and-ruminates/
