Love Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox — Read

Once in the world's first prime, / When nothing lived or stirred -- / Nothing but new-born Time, / Nor was there even a bird -- / The Silence spoke to a Star; / But I do not dare repeat / What it said to its love afar, / It was too sweet, too sweet.

But there, in the fair world's youth, / Ere sorrow had drawn breath, / When nothing was known but Truth, / Nor was there even death, / The Star to Silence was wed, / And the Sun was priest that day, / And they made their bridal-bed / High in the Milky Way.

For the great white star had heard / Her silent lover's speech; / It needed no passionate word / To pledge them each to each. / Oh, lady fair and far, / Hear, oh, hear and apply! / Thou, the beautiful Star -- / The voiceless Silence, I.