| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | III. “Night closes round me, and wild threatening forms” | | By Anne Charlotte Lynch (1815–1891) |
| | | NIGHT closes round me, and wild threatening forms | |
| Clasp me with icy arms and chain me down, | |
| And bind upon my brow a cypress crown, | |
| Dewy with tears; and heaven frowns dark with storms. | |
| But the one glorious memory of thee | 5 |
| Rises upon my path to guide and bless,— | |
| The bright Shekinah of the wilderness, | |
| The polar star upon a trackless sea, | |
| The beaming Pharos of the unreached shore; | |
| It spans the clouds that gather o’er my way,— | 10 |
| The rainbow of my life’s tempestuous day. | |
| O blessed thought! stay with me evermore, | |
| And shed thy lustrous beams where midnight glooms, | |
| As fragrant lamps burned in the ancient tombs. | | | | |
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