But a drowsy consciousness, a blend of dreams,

With reality's extravagant extremes;

Such the zone on slumber's verge.

STELLAR NOCTURNE

Speeds the day in silent flight, on the sombre wings of night,

As the dying sunlight glimmers in the west;

Soon the shadows cease to creep, for the sun has gone to sleep,

And the scene is wrapped in somnolence and rest.

From a solitary star, in the realms of space afar,

Faintly twinkling through the shadows of the night,