Rainer Maria Rilke — By Day Thou Art The Legend and The Dream

By day Thou are the Legend and the Dream That like a whisper floats about all men, The deep and brooding stillnesses which seem, After the hour has struck, to close again. And when the day with drowsy gesture bends And sinks to sleep beneath the evening skies, As from each roof a tower of smoke ascends— So does Thy Realm, my God, around me rise.