How should sleep dull mine ears, and dim my sight,

Who saw the stars, and listened to the sea?

Ah, how the City of our God is fair!

If, without sea and starless though it be,

For joy of the majestic beauty there,

Men shall not miss the stars, nor mourn the sea.

A FRIEND

By Lionel Johnson

All, that he came to give,

He gave, and went again: