Evening Songs
LII
My pillow was of sorrow made
My sleep were tears, free flowing;
Go easy, my heart—not so loud:
Deep penitence I’m showing.
The moon comes by the window in,
Gown’d in her deathly pallor,
And in the heart a song died down
As of a bird, sad caller.
Dear moon, light up the stars on high
Let dew descend on flowers;
Awake from sleep the nightingale,
But men—let sleep their hours!
You carry off the gorgeous love—
You know the calamity;
I am now but a wretched man—
Ah, pity, pity, pity!
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