Love's Journey

Moonbeam purest and serenest

That from Heaven's pale vapour leanest,

Shining earthward far away

With thy lustrous silver ray,

Shine on my beloved's home,

Tell her swift as I come.

Dawning sun, thou orb of wonder,

Rolling sable clouds asunder,

Shake the dun mist from thy brow,

Rim with gold her dwelling now;

Tell her, glorious messenger,

How I haste to come to her.

Night's long journeyings are over,

I am come to thee, dear lover,

Here I wait at earliest dawn

'Mid the roses on thy lawn,

Open wide thy window, Sweet,

I am kneeling at thy feet.