Sure on this shining night

[velvetpage]

Sure On This Shining Night

Sure on this shining night
Of star-made 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
Wand'ring far alone
Of shadows on the stars.

- James Agee

Comments

[spiralsongkat.livejournal.com]

Lovely. I've sung the Samuel Barber setting of that poem; it gives me chills.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

This is my first encounter with it. We're singing it in choir, I think for Solstice on the 21st of December, and I've fallen in love with it.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

That's lovely. :)

[mar2nee.livejournal.com]

Thank you, that's beautiful.