Someone whom no man can see
Is lighting candles in the tree
Star by star, on every bough
There is a taper burning now.
Quietly, the forest through,
Eyes are lit up, two by two.
The silky moles and velvet mice
Have eyes as sharp as cracks in ice.
Dark-lanterns of the owls begin
To burn like emeralds and sin.
The raccoon built of hidden wire
Prowls by the glow of his btain-fire.
Herons stand as still as years
And see the fish swim through their tears.
All the creatures of the night
Are busy being their own light.