BURNING our hearts out with longing
  The daylight passed:
Millions and millions together,
  The stars at last!
 

Purple the woods where the dewdrops,
  Pearly and grey,
Wash in the cool from our faces
  The flame of day.
 

Glory and shadow grow one in
  The hazel wood:
Laughter and peace in the stillness
  Together brood.
 

Hopes all unearthly are thronging
  In hearts of earth:
Tongues of the starlight are calling
  Our souls to birth.
 

Down from the heaven its secrets
  Drop one by one;
Where time is for ever beginning
  And time is done.
 

There light eternal is over
  Chaos and night:
Singing with dawn lips for ever,
  “Let there be light!”
 

There too for ever in twilight
  Time slips away,
Closing in darkness and rapture
  Its awful day.

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Poet: George William Russell
Poem: 53. 53. Night
Volume: Collected Poems by A.E.
Year: Published/Written in 1913
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