Gone — flitted away, Taken the stars from the night and the sun From the day! Gone, and a cloud in my heart.

The speaker laments a sudden loss—someone or something has “flitted away,” leaving the world emotionally unlit. The imagery is cosmic and absolute: stars removed from night and the sun from day suggests not merely sadness but a total collapse of meaning and orientation. The final line internalizes the darkness (“a cloud in my heart”), shifting from external deprivation to an enduring, intimate grief. The short, broken lines and exclamations enact shock and breathlessness, as if the mind cannot smoothly process the departure. Overall, the passage reads as an intensified lyric of bereavement or abandonment, where personal loss is experienced as a change in the very structure of reality.