Night's Remorse

I hope we don't take for granted the Idaho's beautiful night sky...

“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Night’s Remorse

If the stars but shone

Just one night,

Oh, how we would believe;

And in their light

See beauty more

Than we now conceive.

Yet they dance

Across the sky

With each setting sun;

And we but fain

To lift an eye

And see what God has done.

What a waste

Of God’s dear love

Embodied in the night,

If we don’t care

To look above

And see the blessed  sight!

If in time

The heavens fade,

Then we’ll stop and stare;

And long again

For God to paint

In the black and empty air.

                           Jack Shirley