To Night This Night Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

To-night this night
how sad
The church-bells ring in the long distance

From the church all lit
The bell-sounds foam over the dark waters
Silently.

And in the haze
How sadness dwells to-night.

I wish, I wish
They could not fade
They would not fade
But ring
Ring
Over the whole night
And silently.

Vain wish! They fade! They fade!
Seconds seem to make them less
Less audible!

Alas! Alas!

And in the night
over the waters dark
dwindling
They bubble and foam