A Sleepless Night
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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Within the hollow silence of the night
I awake and listened. I could hear
Planet with planet chiming clear,
And unto star star cadencing aright.
Nor these alone: cloistered from deafening sight,
things that are, made music to my ear:
woods, dumb caves, and many a soundless mere,
Arctic mains in rigid sleep locked tight.
But with this chant from shore and sea,
From constellation, humming thought,
And life through time's stops variously,
A melancholy undertone was wrought;
And its boundless prison-house I caught
The awful wail lone Eternity.