How clear she shines!

How clear she shines!

How quietly I lie beneath her silver light

While Heaven and Earth are whispering to me

"Tomorrow wake, but dream tonight."

[Yes fancy come, my spirit love!

These throbbing temples, softly kiss,

And bend my lonely couch above

And bring me rest.]

While gazing on the stars that glow

Above me in that stormless sea

I long to hope that all the woe

Creation knows is held in thee!

And this shall be my dream tonight

I'll think the heav'n of glorious spheres

Is rolling on its course of light

In endless bliss, through endless years.

[I'll think there's not one world above

Far as these straining eyes can see

Where wisdom ever laughed at Love

Or Virtue crouched to Infamy

Where pleasure still will lead to wrong

And helpless reason warn in vain

And truth is weak, and treachery strong

And joy the shortest path to pain

And peace the lethargy of grief

And hope a phantom of the soul

And life a labour void and brief

And death the despot of the whole]