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Love's Vigil

Love will outwatch the stars, and light the skies

When the last star falls, and the silent dark devours;

God's warrior, he will watch the allotted hours,

And conquer with the look of his sad eyes;

He shakes the kingdom of darkness with his sighs,

His quiet sighs, while all the Infernal Powers

Tremble and pale upon their central towers,

Lest, haply, his bright universe arise.

All will be well if he have strength to wait,

Till his lost Pleiad, white and silver-shod, 38