With ne’er a thought of all the journey past,

For this I know—that on one perfect day

When everything is, oh, so glad and gay,

You’ll hear and come and claim your own, at last.

Twilight

When twilight falls and all the land is still,

The purple shadows steal across the hill,

And one lone star above a pine-tree’s crest

Shines ever brighter, while from out its nest

There breaks the low cry of the whip-poor-will.