Morning, Noon and Night

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="MORNING_NOON_AND_NIGHT" id="MORNING_NOON_AND_NIGHT"></SPAN>MORNING, NOON AND NIGHT</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When morning shows her first faint flush,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I think of the tender blush<br/></span> <span class="i0">That crept so gently to your cheek<br/></span> <span class="i0">When first my love I dared to speak;<br/></span> <span class="i0">How, in your glance, a dawning ray<br/></span> <span class="i0">Gave promise of love's perfect day.<br/></span> <span class='pagenum'><SPAN name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When, in the ardent breath of noon,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The roses with passion swoon;<br/></span> <span class="i0">There steals upon me from the air<br/></span> <span class="i0">The scent that lurked within your hair;<br/></span> <span class="i0">I touch your hand, I clasp your form&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Again your lips are close and warm.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">When comes the night with beauteous skies,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I think of your tear-dimmed eyes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Their mute entreaty that I stay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Although your lips sent me away;<br/></span> <span class="i0">And then falls memory's bitter blight,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And dark&mdash;so dark becomes the night.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />