English poem
Day And Night
by Hartley Burr Alexander (1873–1939)
The Day is a blue Man with a burning heart; The bright clouds are his feather ornaments; The dark clouds are his spacious robes; The whole world is his rich possession, And the shining birds are the choirs that praise him: He is the Chieftain of all that live, And men call him ‘Father’....
The Night is a Woman with a changing heart, Which sometimes she reveals and sometimes she hides, And sometimes she sends palely, palely, after the Day; But her stars she keeps with her, always upon her bosom, For her stars are her little children that must be carried: Her stars are the spirits of all that die, And men call her ‘Mother’....