Sure on This Shining Night

Sure on this shining night

Of starmade shadows round

Kindness must watch for me

This side the ground

The late year lies down the north

All is healed, all is health

High summer holds the earth

Hearts all whole

Sure on this shining night I weep for wonder wandering far alone

Of shadows on the stars

Now thorn bone bare

Silenced with iron the branch’s gullet:

Rattling merely on the air

Of hornleaved holly: