To night’s dark, regal heaven,

Spoiler! I ask thee not reprieve for these.

But for the happy love

Whose light, where’er I rove,

Kindles all nature to a sudden smile,

Shedding on branch and flower

A rainbow-tinted shower

Of richer life—spare, spare me yet awhile.

Too soon, too fast thou’rt come!

Too beautiful is home—