Evenstar

Evenstar, still

If this twilight thou dost

On a more unhappy head,

On tears lonelier than mine,

Vainer prayers and deepest sighs,

Take, sweet spirit, thou that

Comforter of our

All the prayers perforce unsaid,

All the sighs I cannot sigh,

All the tears I cannot shed;

Fill his eyes and flood his heart,

Who, my everlasting kin,

Broods, afar, unknown, apart.

Bring, ah bring him that

From unsolaceable pain,

Which nor prayers, nor tears, nor sighs,

No, nor even the

Presence of thy eternal

Can,

O evenstar, make mine.