A HYMN TO THE SETTING SUN.

I.

"Slow, slow, mighty wanderer, sink to thy rest,

Thy course of beneficence done;

As glorious go down to thy Thetis' warm breast

As when thy bright race was begun.

For all thou hast done

Since thy rising, oh sun!

May thou and thy Maker be bless'd!

Thou hast scatter'd the night from thy broad golden way,