Katharine Lee Bates - Into the Night lyrics

Arise, come forth into the night! Arise, Belovéd, for her dusky lips will teach A nobler tale than any mortal speech, And the pure lights of her eternal eyes, Beyond all anger, sorrow and surprise, Look with the same large loveliness on each, Not human-fashion, scorning who beseech To cherish those who scorn. The gleaming skies Are royal with old goddesses and queens Whose faces lit the earth till, banished thence, They watch from heaven the fair, familiar scenes That nevermore shall do them reverence, Though humbled Ca**iopaea earthward leans, And Cynthia sheds her old beneficence.