A TREMBLING STAR
‘They push it out before the sweet, kind moon
Lights up the sea.
They laugh because it fears the dark. ‘Soon, soon,
You’ll braver be,’
They say.
Lights up the sea.
They laugh because it fears the dark. ‘Soon, soon,
You’ll braver be,’
They say.
“One night I climbed far up that high white tree
Beside the beach,
And tried to stretch my hand acrass the sea
And tried to reach
The grey.
Beside the beach,
And tried to stretch my hand acrass the sea
And tried to reach
The grey.
“For something made me feel my heart would break
Unless that night
I in my hand my trembling star could take
And kiss its fright
Away.
Unless that night
I in my hand my trembling star could take
And kiss its fright
Away.
“There only blew a strange wind chillily,
And clouds were swept.
The angels would not let my own star see
That someone wept.
I pray
And clouds were swept.
The angels would not let my own star see
That someone wept.
I pray
“To Christ, who hears my little prayers each night,
That He will seek
Through all His skies for that sweet, frightened light,
And stoop His cheek
And say
That He will seek
Through all His skies for that sweet, frightened light,
And stoop His cheek
And say
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