Cleaning The Windows.

Wash the window; rub it dry;
    Make the ray-door clean and bright:
He who lords it in the sky
    Loves on cottage floors to light!

Looking over sea and beck,
    Mountain-forest, orchard-bloom,
He can spy the smallest speck
    Anywhere about the room!

See how bright his torch is blazing
    In the heart of mother's store!
Strange! I never saw him gazing
    So into that press before!

Ah, I see!--the wooden pane
    In the window, dull and dead,
Father called its loss a gain,
    And a glass one put instead!

What a difference it makes!
    How it melts the filmy gloom!
What a little more it takes
    Much to brighten up a room!

There I spy a dusty streak!
    There a corner not quite clean!
There a cobweb! There the sneak
    Of a spider, watching keen!

Lord of suns, and eyes that see,
    Shine into me, see and show;
Leave no darksome spot in me
    Where thou dost not shining go.

Fill my spirit full of eyes,
    Doors of light in every part;
Open windows to the skies
    That no moth corrupt my heart.