Day shall give way

Day give way to night and scatter stars across the water

Pearls to make a trail of cosmic light to guide ships home
For though the world now closes in so fast about us
The spirit of past deeds, lingers like ghosts at dusk
They haunt the night air and pervade uneasy dreams
Till the sun rises again; high and new; in a dawn sky.
Yet the warmth of the fresh day cannot warm the chill;
The world has changed and our hearts are left in the past
To wonder; how on earth did it all come to this?