NIGHT AND DAY

Till at last the day begins
In the east a-breaking,

In the hedges and the whins
Sleeping birds a-waking.

In the darkness shapes of things,
Houses, trees, and hedges

Clearer grow ; and sparrow’s wings
Beat on window ledges.

 

These shall wake the yawning maid ;

She the door shall open—
Finding dew on garden glade

And the morning broken.

There my garden grows again
Green and rosy painted,

As at eve behind the pane
From my eyes it fainted.

Just as it was shut away,
Toy-like, in the even,
Here I see it glow with day
Under glowing heaven.
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