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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

‘The Night has a thousand Eyes’

Francis William Bourdillon (1852–1921)

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.