New Zealand Verse/Consummation
CIII.
Consummation.
The perfect night is here; each shining star
Beams at its brightest, and the rolling sphere
Is full of dim enchantments from afar:
The perfect night is here!
O Lord of Love and Life! in holy fear
I kneel and pray, no dissonance may mar
The marriage of our spirits; draw Thou near,
Thou knowest, Father, what Thy children are;
Make Thou this day of marvels yet more dear;
For now, soft curtained in her glancing car,
The perfect night is here.
Beams at its brightest, and the rolling sphere
Is full of dim enchantments from afar:
The perfect night is here!
O Lord of Love and Life! in holy fear
I kneel and pray, no dissonance may mar
The marriage of our spirits; draw Thou near,
Thou knowest, Father, what Thy children are;
Make Thou this day of marvels yet more dear;
For now, soft curtained in her glancing car,
The perfect night is here.
Mary E. Richmond