Follow Thy Fair Sun
Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Though thou be black as night, And she made all of light, Yet follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow! Follow her, whose light thy light depriveth! Though here thou liv'st disgraced, And she in heaven is placed, Yet follow her whose light the world reviveth! Follow those pure beams, whose beauty burneth! That so have scorched thee As thou still black must be Till her kind beams thy black to brightness turneth. Follow here, while yet her glory shineth! There comes a luckless night That will dim all her light; And this the black unhappy shade divineth. Follow still, since so thy fates ordained! The sun must have his shade, Till both at once do fade, The sun still proud, the shadow still disdained.
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