<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408402" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Earth Laments for Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THERE’S music wafting on the air,<br>The evening winds are sighing<br>Among the trees—and yonder stream<br>Is mournfully replying,<br>Lamenting loud the sunny light<br>That in the west is dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The moon is rising o’er the hill,<br>Her slanting rays are creeping<br>Where Nature lies profoundly still<br>In happy quiet sleeping,<br>And resting on her face, they’ll find<br>The earth is wet with weeping.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She mourneth for the lovely day,<br>Now deep in darkness shaded;<br>She sheds the dewy tear because<br>Of morning’s mantle faded;<br>She misses from her breast the garb<br>In which the moon array’d it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The evening queen will strive in vain<br>To break the spell which bound her;<br>A million stars can never throw<br>Departed warmth around her;<br>They all must pass away and leave<br>The earth as they had found her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But why should gentle Nature weep<br>That night has overtaken<br>The wearied world that needed sleep,<br>Refreshed to re-awaken,<br>So richer light might burst around,<br>The gloomy shadows breaking?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, can she not from yonder sky<br>That gleams above her, borrow<br>A single ray, or find a way<br>To check the tear of sorrow?<br>A beam of hope would last her till<br>The dawning of to-morrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Kendall">Henry Kendall</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=408402" data-title="The Earth Laments for Day de Henry Kendall" data-description="THERE’S music wafting on the air, The evening winds are sighing Among the trees—and yonder stream Is mournfully replying, Lamenting loud the sunny light That in the west is dying. The moon is rising o’er the hill, Her slanting rays are cree..."></div> </div> </div>

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