I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 id="id03011" style="margin-top: 6em">I SAW THE MOON RISE CLEAR.</h1> <h5 id="id03012">A FINLAND LOVE SONG.</h5> <p id="id03013" style="margin-top: 2em">I saw the moon rise clear<br/> O'er hills and vales of snow<br/> Nor told my fleet reindeer<br/> The track I wished to go.<br/> Yet quick he bounded forth;<br/> For well my reindeer knew<br/> I've but one path on earth—<br/> The path which leads to you.<br/></p> <p id="id03014">The gloom that winter cast,<br/> How soon the heart forgets,<br/> When summer brings, at last,<br/> Her sun that never sets!<br/> So dawned my love for you;<br/> So, fixt thro' joy and pain,<br/> Than summer sun more true,<br/> 'Twill never set again.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />