Poems (Acton)/To the Evening Star

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4625075Poems — To the Evening StarHarriet Acton and Rose Acton

TO THE EVENING STAR. ——
O'er me steals a vision bright:
Star of Eve! I gaze on thee;
While beneath thy silver light
Faintly smiles the summer sea.
Mem'ry comes with gentle spell,
Sweetly in my heart to dwell,
Bringing back, with magic chain,
All I love to me again.

Friends afar on thee may gaze
Yearningly, as I do now,
Calling up departed days,
Haply with a saddened brow.
Eyes that oft have dwelt on mine,
Star of Eve! behold thee shine:
Oh! that each loved face could be
Mirror'd in thine orb to me.

Paler grows each trembling ray;
'Neath the sun thy glories die,
Fading, like my hopes, away,
In yon blue and distant sky.
Thoughts, that by thy welcome beam
Seem recalled as in a dream;
And the joys thou bring'st to me,
Star of Eve! they die with thee.
H. A.