Sweet Silent Moon.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1944, 20 December 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

Sweet Silent Moon.

Jil J) C\MI HON.

A million yeais ]iave passed a\\a\, O'er land and sky and sea; A million years are but a day, ( Sweet silent star to Thee. Scene of the scene thy beams have lit, Becurrmg year by j ear, As if in water they were writ, And thou of granite seai. Face after face havega/ed on tliee That long ago was dust, And tender eyes thy foim did see, That now aie mould and must! Still sailing on above the stiife Of element and man. Thou seest the shifting scenes of life, The struggles of a span. And when this hand's iesol\ed to dust, These eyes buteaith and an, Thy orb will sail o'er hea\en as ihsfc It dawned on woild so fan ! We are as shadows, passing motes That dance upon thy beams, Like some poor sliort-lned midge that iloats A second in thy gleams Yet science tells that thou must fade, That thou art seai and dead, And that in some daik doomed decade Thy glories will be fled. And science tells the woild will die, Theuniveise as well, That thiough all space no globe will lly, And chaos weave his spell. But science tells the solemn tiuth, That out oi thisdiead state A univeise will use in ymith To work another fate. So silent moon roll on in light, Of past, of future, tell, And bless each geneiation's sight With all we love so well.