’Twas death in all his power, their very names had died. }
“These tales of terror views terrific bred,
And sent the hearers trembling to their bed.”
In an autumnal evening, cool and still,
The sun just dropp’d beneath a distant hill,
The children gazing on the quiet scene,
Then rose in glory Night’s majestic queen;
And pleasant was the chequer’d light and shade
Her golden beams and maple shadows made; 80