In a City Room
O city night of noises and alarms,Your lights may flare, your cables clang and rush,But in the sanctuary of my love’s armsYour blinding tumult dies into a hush.My doors are surged about with your unrest;Your plangent cares assail my realm of peace;But when I come unto her quiet breastHow suddenly your jar and clamor cease!Then even remembrance of your strifes and painsDiminishes to a ghost of sorrows gone,Remoter than a dream of last year’s rainsGusty against my window in the dawn.
O city night of noises and alarms,Your lights may flare, your cables clang and rush,But in the sanctuary of my love’s armsYour blinding tumult dies into a hush.My doors are surged about with your unrest;Your plangent cares assail my realm of peace;But when I come unto her quiet breastHow suddenly your jar and clamor cease!Then even remembrance of your strifes and painsDiminishes to a ghost of sorrows gone,Remoter than a dream of last year’s rainsGusty against my window in the dawn.
O city night of noises and alarms,Your lights may flare, your cables clang and rush,But in the sanctuary of my love’s armsYour blinding tumult dies into a hush.
O city night of noises and alarms,
Your lights may flare, your cables clang and rush,
But in the sanctuary of my love’s arms
Your blinding tumult dies into a hush.
My doors are surged about with your unrest;Your plangent cares assail my realm of peace;But when I come unto her quiet breastHow suddenly your jar and clamor cease!
My doors are surged about with your unrest;
Your plangent cares assail my realm of peace;
But when I come unto her quiet breast
How suddenly your jar and clamor cease!
Then even remembrance of your strifes and painsDiminishes to a ghost of sorrows gone,Remoter than a dream of last year’s rainsGusty against my window in the dawn.
Then even remembrance of your strifes and pains
Diminishes to a ghost of sorrows gone,
Remoter than a dream of last year’s rains
Gusty against my window in the dawn.