Stella viatoris

A. Beach

Dun grows the sky;

The cloudrack dark

In the west hangs low.

The wind moans by;

The bare trees ply their futile weaving

Sad and slow;

But o'er the east

The grim clouds part

A fleece of white,

A space of blue

Aloft, afar,

There's a single star,

Like the kindness of God

Shining thro'.