White Hesper folded in the rose of eve;

The still cloud floats, and kissed by twilight sleeps;

The mists drop down, and near the mountain moor;

And mute the bird’s throat swells with slumber now;

And now the wild winds to their eyries cling.

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O youngest Roamer, wonderful is joy,

The rose in bloom that out of darkness springs;

The lily folded to the wave of life,

The lotus on the stream’s dark passion borne.