O WEARY night, O weary day, <br />When heart's delight is far away! <br /> <br />What is the day? A frame of blue <br />The vacant-glaring sun grins through. <br />What is the night? A sable veil <br />Through which the moon peers tired and pale. <br /> <br />O weary day! O weary night! <br />How far away is heart's delight! <br /> <br />Love hung the sun in his high place <br />To give me light to see her face, <br />And love spread out the veil of night <br />To hide us two from all men's sight. <br /> <br />O kindly night, O pleasant day, <br />Your use is gone--why should ye stay? <br />My heart's delight is far away, <br />O weary night, O weary day.<br /><br />Edith Nesbit<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/raison-d-etre-3/
