A Dark Month / From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Out of dawn and morning,
Noon and afternoon,
The sun to the world gives warning
Of news that brightens the moon;
And the stars all night exult with us, hearing of joy that shall come with June.

Transcriber's note

[The line] in number VII

To far outshines the sun,

appears thus in the original. It may be a misprint.