I.

Sweet twilight,—of all other hours most blest

For those whose prospect is their needed rest;

When down the western sphere of heav’n had gone

The great and good—the all propitious sun.

Oh, Heaven! how gracious is that mid-way hour,

When all the day-birds seek their somb’rous bow’r;

And when—if not in full—the quartering moon

Attracts the eye to the celestial zone,—

Such then the hour when George in lowly state