Evenstar

Evenstar, still evenstar If this twilight thou dost shine On a more unhappy head, On tears lonelier than mine, Vainer prayers and deepest sighs, Take, sweet spirit, thou that art Comforter of our despairs All the prayers perforce unsaid, All the sighs I cannot sigh, All the tears I cannot shed; Fill his eyes and flood his heart, Who, my everlasting kin, Broods, afar, unknown, apart. Bring, ah bring him that surcease From unsolaceable pain, Which nor prayers, nor tears, nor sighs, No, nor even the divine Presence of thy eternal peace Can, O evenstar, make mine.