(1833)
See [Shining as Lamps].
LIGHT AFTER NIGHT
Mary Elliot interprets the moral cheer of recurring dawn in these musical lines:
Dawn of the red, red sun in a bleak, abandoned sky
That the moon has lately left and the stars are fast forsaking—
The day is drawing the cloudy lids from his bloodshot eye,
And the world impatient stirs—a tired old sleeper, waking.
O most unwearying prophet, ever-returning morn!
Thou giv’st new life to a world grown old, and marred in making;