It's Twilight

It’s twilight; the cerulean sweep of azure afternoon

Declares the glory of the Lord in soft magenta swoon

The billowed breadth of moments like a highway to the sky

Claims one more day of gathered fray into the by and by

It’s twilight; now the vesper of the sparrow and the lark

Compete and then grow softer as the purple sky grows dark

The seeds that we have sown today are transiently concealed

Until the certain harvest when its fruit will be revealed

It’s twilight; money-changers count their nickels and their dimes

The mother rocks her baby and the opaque hour climbs

Up to the pinnacle of night before the morrow slips

Across its ephemeral form with ether fingertips

It’s twilight; lovely is its languid farewell melody

As darkness spreads its being over land and sky and sea

Darling, I draw the shutters, dim the lights and bar the door

But cannot mute the murmur where ink-fraught oceans implore

© Janet Martin~

Sequel to It’s Midnight and It’s Morning

I like this song...

 

Twilight Is Stealing

 

Words: Aldine Silliman Kieffer
Music: Twilight Is Stealing | Benjamin Carl Unseld

 

 

Twilight is stealing, over the sea,
Shadows are stealing dark on the lea;
Borne on the night winds, voices of yore
Come from the far-off shore.

Voices of loved ones, songs of the past,
Still linger round me while life shall last;
Lonely I wander, sadly I roam,
Seeking that far-off home.

Come in the twilight, come, come to me!
Bringing some message, over the sea,
Cheering my pathway, while here I roam,
Seeking that far-off home.

Refrain:
Far away beyond the starlit skies,
Where the love-light never, never dies,
Gleameth a mansion, filled with delight,
Sweet happy home so bright!