Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.

Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

How silent are the winds!