Syned - Moonlight lyrics

The storm is spent, the wind has died away; Cool raindrops cling to trembling leaf and tree As one departing lingers--loath to stay-- And yet departing more unwillingly. The clouds have vanished from the purpled sky Before the footsteps of the rising moon (The queen whose j**elled courtiers prostrate lie Dazed by the splendour of her silvered shoon). The earth beneath, half-hidden, half-revealed, Breathes mellowed beauty where each faery beam Bathes kloof and vlei and kraal and mealie-field And willows swaying sadly o'er a stream-- In light--wherein a mining shaft may seem The angel's ladder of a poet's dream.