MOON-RISE.
I own I have been startled into fear
To see upon some dark December night
The stricken fields and slopes grow strangely bright
And fairy shadows silently appear,
And at that melancholy time of year
When only stubble shows and earth is cold,
To see the landscape filled with waving gold
And sudden harvests gleam where all was sere;
Yet must I think it stranger still to find
How when the heart is at its winter time
Of barrenness and drear sterility,
Such glimpses raise a harvest, suddenly,
Of golden sentiments, whence sky-larks climb,
In the illumined landscape of the mind.
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