“Even as the moon grows queenlier in mid-space
When the sky darkens, and her cloud-rapt car
Thrills with intenser radiance from afar,—
So lambent, lady, beams thy sovereign grace
When the drear soul desires thee.”

—  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life

Gracious Moonlight.
The House of Life (1870—1881)

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