Charlotte Turner Smith
          
Elegiac sonnets. Volume 2 of 2
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SONNET LXXII.

TO THE MORNING STAR.
WRITTEN NEAR THE SEA.
THEE! lucid arbiter 'twixt day and night,

[Note:] SONNET LXXII.
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Thee! "lucid arbiter 'twixt day and night."
Milton.


         The Seaman greets, as on the Ocean stream
         Reflected, thy precursive friendly beam
Points out the long-sought haven to his sight.
Watching for thee, the lover's ardent eyes
         Turn to the eastern hills; and as above
Thy brilliance trembles, hails the lights that rise
         To guide his footsteps to expecting love!
I mark thee too, as night's dark clouds retire,
         And thy bright radiance glances on the sea;
But nevermore shall thy heraldic fire
         Speak of approaching morn with joy to me!
Quench'd in the gloom of death that heavenly ray
Once lent to light me on my thorny way!
 
 
 
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