daylight and moonlight (longfellow)

daylight and moonlight † in broad daylight, and at noon yesterday i saw the moon sailing high, but faint and white as a school-boy's paper kite in broad daylight, yesterday i read a poet's mystic lay and it seemed to me at most as a phantom, or a ghost but at length the feverish day like a passion died away and the night, serene and still fell on village, vale, and hill then the moon, in all her pride like a Spirit glorified filled and overflowed the night with revelations of her light and the poet's song again passed like music through my brain night interpreted to me all its grace and mystery ~ † henry wadsworth longfellow, "daylight and moonlight" birds of passage : flight the first : ticknor and fields, boston : 1858 sound design and illustration by rjh and chat-gpt 6 astra (light)