Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
53. Night
B
The daylight passed:
Millions and millions together,
The stars at last!
Pearly and grey,
Wash in the cool from our faces
The flame of day.
The hazel wood:
Laughter and peace in the stillness
Together brood.
In hearts of earth:
Tongues of the starlight are calling
Our souls to birth.
Drop one by one;
Where time is for ever beginning
And time is done.
Chaos and night:
Singing with dawn lips for ever,
“Let there be light!”
Time slips away,
Closing in darkness and rapture
Its awful day.