# Until the Daybreak

Language: en  
Author: Claudia Esh  
June 23, 2007  
Original issue: The Heartbeat of The Remnant, April/May/June 2008, Number 2  
Source pages: 36  
Read article: <https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/poetry/until-the-daybreak/>
Original PDF: 2008\-2Q\-Remnant\.pdf
[The Heartbeat of The Remnant, April/May/June 2008](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/en/issues/heartbeat-remnant-2008-04/>)

![A silhouetted tree beneath a crescent moon at twilight](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c88e3f3c-2294-4058-b853-a4d8e98944f2-1.jpg>)

The night is dark, yet stars are studded  
 Jewel\-like on the midnight sky,  
 Puffs of filmy clouds have scudded  
 From the breezes’ evening sigh;  
 On the wind a gentle calling  
 Of a wooing nighttime bird;  
 Dew, still falling, sweetly falling,  
 Reflects the moon like silver blurred\.

Ah, night is dark\! And yet its grandeur  
 Soft and gentle, sweet, sublime,  
 Moonlight gleams in silent splendor,  
 Slowly fall the sands of time;  
 The Lord can soften midnight’s starkness–  
 Until the daybreak, sunrise clear,  
 He is with us in the darkness,  
 And through our trials\.\.\.God is near\.

Claudia Esh  
 June 23, 2007

## Magazine citation

- [A silhouetted tree beneath a crescent moon at twilight](<https://remnant.truechristian.church/images/articles/c88e3f3c-2294-4058-b853-a4d8e98944f2-1.jpg>): © Mark Ross \- Fotolia\.com