First published in 1842.
Move eastward, happy earth, and leave
Yon orange sunset waning slow:
From fringes of the faded eve,
O, happy planet, eastward go;
Till over thy dark shoulder glow
Thy silver sister-world, and rise
To glass herself in dewy eyes
That watch me from the glen below.
Ah, bear me with thee, smoothly[1] borne,
Dip forward under starry light,
And move me to my marriage-morn,
And round again to happy night.
[1] 1842 to 1853. Lightly.