How happy yet were we! that when You went,

You left within Your Kingdom's firmament

A Partner-light, whose lustre may despise

The nightly glimm'ring tapers of the skies,

Your peerless Queen; and at each hand a Star,

Whose hopeful beams from You enkindled are.

Though (to say truth) the light, which they could bring,

Serv'd but to lengthen out our evening.

Heaven's greater lamps illumine it; each spark

20Adds only this, to make the sky less dark.