Poems (Tynan)/Home-Coming
HOME-COMING
O passionate pilgrim, was the way So long then, was the day so long From the blue matin till 'twas gray? From morning till the evening-song?
Was it so long, Love, while you came Nearer each minute? lead-foot, slow, Did the day round to evening-flame? And was the daylight slow to go?
And did your eager eyes look far To see the crescent moon rise bright? And Hesper, your home-coming star, Did Hesper tarry long that night?
At last the moon rained gold, and lest The moon-gold were too cold, there fell Drifting of bloom about your nest; That night the nightingale sang well.
O sweet day full of scent and song, Sweetly it wore from dawn to even; And yet the sweet day did us wrong, Since evening brought the lover's heaven.