Poems (Duer)/To the Night-Breeze

TO THE NIGHT-BREEZE.
Breeze of the night, across my pillow straying—
Breeze of the night, of summer dews begot,
Salt from the sea-shore, where the waves are playing,
Slow, to and fro, my window curtains swaying—
Cool my flushed cheeks, by recent sleep left hot.

A. D.