Pike County Ballads and Other Poems

THE LIGHT OF LOVE.

  Each shining light above us
    Has its own peculiar grace;
  But every light of heaven
    Is in my darling's face.

  For it is like the sunlight,
    So strong and pure and warm,
  That folds all good and happy things,
    And guards from gloom and harm.

  And it is like the moonlight,
    So holy and so calm;
  The rapt peace of a summer night,
    When soft winds die in balm.

  And it is like the starlight;
    For, love her as I may,
  She dwells still lofty and serene
    In mystery far away.