Tonight

By Carlos Wupperman

(Contemporary American poet)

Tonight the beautiful, chaste moon

From heaven’s height

Scatters over the bridal earth

Blossoms of white;

And spring’s renewed glad charms unfold

Endless delight.

Such mystic wonder the hushed world wears,

Evil has fled

Far, far away; in every heart

God reigns instead....

Tonight a starving virgin sells

Her soul for bread.