In Praise of the Midnight Pearl
Come midnight dark and in her jewel clumped
Set her bright Iskin's blackness to better shine
By being darker than your darkened lump
Where no distinction common eyes can find.
For my pearl is not white, nor grey nor blue
And absorbs all light, nothing passes through
She is the universe of my glad heart
And to me alone her virtues impart
Fountains of milk for fevered tongue to sip
Out of her blackness honeycombs do drip
And when on her sweetness the moonlight spills
The midnight pearl reveals its sudden charm
Light drips from it, a milk mature and warm
In which heaven all its passion distills
Midnight Pearl
by
David Smalling
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