Page:Poems, Volume 2, Coates, 1916.djvu/173

Rh When, after night distressful spent—

Night sleepless and intolerably long,

Comes—unexpected, eloquent—

A tentative, faint note of song!

And the o'erwearied watcher sighs,

And lying still, with tear-wet eyes,

Hearkens the most celestial lays

Earth knows; and sees Night's curtains drawn

Slowly aside, and whispers: "Dawn!"—

Yearning beholds the tender gleam

Of Hope's pale star, where it doth beam

Eternal on thy brow,

And in its ray composed and blest,

Sinks into rest.