Poems (Piatt)/Volume 2/The Night-Moth's Comment
THE NIGHT-MOTH'S COMMENT.[ALIGHTED UPON A YELLOW AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHESTERFIELD.]
Here is a gracious letter that one writ Who thought this rugged world of lands and seas,Among whose suns and rains we shadows flit— In sorrow and in mystery, if you please— A place to be polite and take one's ease.
My lord, above your old, dead courtesy, Out of the light of stars, in lovelier light,All summer-green and glad, this moth to me Seems Nature's comment, clear and brief and bright, On man's poor dusty vanity, to-night.