| Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918. |
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| 10. ‘A Similitude’ |
| | | By Charles Harpur |
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| FAIR as the night—when all the astral fires | |
| Of heaven are burning in the clear expanse, | |
| My love is; and her eyes like star-depths glance | |
| Lustrous with glowing thoughts and pure desires, | |
| And that mysterious pathos which inspires | 5 |
| All moods divine in mortal passion’s trance— | |
| All that its earthly music doth enhance | |
| As with the rapture of seraphic lyres! | |
| I gaze upon her till the atmosphere | |
| Sweetens intensely, and to my charmed sight | 10 |
| All fair associated forms appear | |
| Swimming in joy, as swim yon orbs in light— | |
| And all sweet sounds, though common to mine ear, | |
| Chime up like silver-wingèd dreams in flight. | |
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