The Boarding School; Lessons of a Preceptress to Her Pupils / Consisting of Information, Instruction and Advice, Calculated to Improve the Manners and Form the Character of Young Ladies. To Which Is Added, a Collection of Letters, Written by the Pupils to Their Instructress, Their Friends, and Each Other.

by Hannah Webster Foster

Slowly avoids the opening day:

Receding from the gazing eye,

The misty shades of twilight fly.

The ruddy streaks of light appear,

To guide our western hemisphere;

While tuneful choirs responsive join

To praise the gracious Pow’r Divine,

Whose mighty hand with sov’reign sway,

Restores, alternate, night and day.

Hail, opening morn! thy sober rays