'It is that hour when dusky night <br />Comes gathering o're departing light, <br />When hue by hue and ray by ray, <br />Thine eye may watch it waste away, <br />Until thou canst no more behold <br />The faded tints of pallid gold <br />And soft descended the shades of night, <br />As did those hues so purely bright; <br />And in the blue sky, star by star, <br />Shines out, like happiness afar; <br />A wilderness of worlds! - To well <br />In one, with those we have loved well <br />Where bliss indeed! - The waters flow <br />Gurgling, in darkest hue below, <br />And 'gainst the shore the ripple breaks <br />As from its cave, the east wind wakes, <br />But lo! where Dian's crest on high appears, <br />Faint as the memory of departing years. <br /> <br />NIGHT <br /> <br />The moon is gone; and thus go those we love; <br />The night winds wail; and thus for them we mourn; <br />The stars look down; thus spirits from above <br />Hallow the mourners' tears upon the urn. <br />Some thoughts are all of joy, and some of love; <br />Mine end in tears - they're welcome - let them flow <br />……………………………… We look around, <br />But vainly look for those who formed a part <br />Of us, as we of them, and whom we wore <br />Like gems in bezels, in the heart's deep core. <br />Where are they now? - gone to that 'narrow cell' <br />Whose gloom no lamp hath broken, nor shall break <br />Whose secrets never spirit come to tell: - <br />Oh that their day might dawn, for them they would awake <br /> <br />DAY<br /><br />Henry Louis Vivian Derozio<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/going-into-darkness/
