“Now spurs the lated traveller apace

“To gain the timely inn.”

Shakespeare.

Bright Sol retiring o’er the western hills,

With parting radiance gilds the village spire:

In other realms his healing office fills,

To other climes emits beatific fire.

The dusky shades of twilight now preside,

And wrap the Hamlet in a solemn gloom;

The labours of the industrious hind subside,