A cloud passed over the sun to-day
It shadowed the windows of the town
And darkened the fields that stretch away
To the edge of the forest brown.

A cloud passed over my life to-day:
Its gloomy shadow hung wide and dense;
It came, an unbidden guest, to stay,
I can tell no one why nor whence.

O sun of my life, my light, appear,
And scatter the life-darkening clouds above!
No shadow can stay when thy face is near,
Smiling down from its heaven of love.