Choosing, as background for its loveliness,

The dewy shadows and the twilight lone;

Making the hush of eventide its own.

The blaze and sunshine of the summer hours

Know not nor prize the blooms they never see;

None of the jubilant and day-lit flowers

Hail it as sister, but the drowsy bee

And the night-moth, just roused from his repose,

They love it better than the fair, proud rose.

A type it seems of some shy human hearts,