If e’er the sky could glisten like your eyes, The blue of dawn before the radiant day, When day’s begun though sun is yet to rise All stars are lost; the color of night stays. Or winter’s early frost which dusts the land could in that petty hour before the light Be taken up in some ephemeral hand And cast across the morning’s cobalt height, The beauty of your soul would mirrored be Across the coruscating firmament. To bid the night to stay, the sun to flee The time before the dawn made permanent And in the night where peace can touch the soul, Would be your gaze to ever make me whole.