Upon the mountain side. As day grew dim,

Their scatter’d fires shone with distincter light

Among the trees, above whose top the smoke

Diffused itself, and stain’d the evening sky.

Ere long the stir of occupation ceased,

And all the murmur of the busy host

Subsiding died away, as through the camp

The crier from a knoll proclaim’d the hour

For prayer appointed, and with sonorous voice,

Thrice in melodious modulation full,