Classic Poem

Look! Daylight's faintest glimmer
Pales out of earth and sky;
The serried cliffs wax grimmer,
Then into darkness fly,
And all the sea's white shimmer
Has dimmer grown and dimmer,
And darkened far and nigh.

But yonder, yonder, yonder
Blooms forth each golden star;
Plucking the night asunder,
God lights them thick and far,
While all the heavens wonder,
And all the beings under,
Because such glories are!

Ah! when joy's sun is going
And darkness downward rolls;
When sorrow, blacker growing,
The lives of men controls —
Then, in God's heaven glowing,
Their tender fierceness showing,
Bloom out his star-like souls!