Poems (Piatt)/Volume 2/The Night-Moth's Comment

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by Sarah Piatt
The Night-Moth's Comment
4618833Poems — The Night-Moth's CommentSarah Piatt
THE NIGHT-MOTH'S COMMENT. [ALIGHTED UPON A YELLOW AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF CHESTERFIELD.]
Here is a gracious letter that one writ
Who thought this rugged world of lands and seas,
Among whose suns and rains we shadows flit—
In sorrow and in mystery, if you please—
A place to be polite and take one's ease.

My lord, above your old, dead courtesy,
Out of the light of stars, in lovelier light,
All summer-green and glad, this moth to me
Seems Nature's comment, clear and brief and bright,
On man's poor dusty vanity, to-night.