Midnight

The Moon, a ghost of her sweet self,
And wading through a watery cloud,
Which wraps her lustre like a shroud,
Creeps up the gray, funereal sky,
Wearily! how wearily!
The Wind, with low, bewildered wail
A homeless spirit, sadly lost,
Sweeps shuddering o’er the pallid frost,
And faints afar, with heart-sick sigh,
Drearily! how drearily!
And now a deathly stillness falls
On earth and heaven, save when the shrill,
Malignant owl o’er heath and hill
Smites the wan silence with a cry,
Eerily! how eerily!