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IN THE JUNE TWLILIGHT.
IN THE JUNE TWILIGHT.
Suggested by Noel Paton's Picture of "The Silver Cord Loosed."
N the June twilight, in the soft gray twilight, The yellow sun-glow trembling through the rainy eve,
As my love lay quiet, came the solemn fiat,
"All these things forever—forever—thou must leave."
My love she sank down quivering, like a pine in tempest shivering—
"I have had so little happiness as yet beneath the sun:
I have called the shadow sunshine, and the merest frosty moonshine
I have, weeping, blessed the Lord for, as if daylight had begun;
"I have had so little happiness as yet beneath the sun:
I have called the shadow sunshine, and the merest frosty moonshine
I have, weeping, blessed the Lord for, as if daylight had begun;
"Till He sent a sudden angel, with a glorious sweet evangel,
Who turned all my tears to pearl-gems, and crowned me—so little worth;
Who turned all my tears to pearl-gems, and crowned me—so little worth;
