1.

My heart is like the twilight sky

For there thou shin’st, its only star;

And giv’st me all the radiancy

That others worship from afar!

2.

Oh may this twilight be as those

That linger o’er the arctic air,

Where one mild star, as fable shews,

Goes round and round, but sets not there.

3.

For I have known no cheerful day,

Till soft this twilight calm was given;

Star of my heart—sink ne’er away,

Nor seek too soon thy further Heaven!