Francis Willi Bourdillon

22 March 1852 – 13 January 1921 / Runcorn, Cheshire

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one:
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
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