Earliest source found, with same “gloom” for “gleam” error: The lady’s magazine: entertaining companion, for the fair sex, appropriated solely to their use and amusement (London, Vol. X, September 1779, pg 482), signed “An Old Correspondent”.
Notes: “The bold luminary of day has now withdrawn his radiance, yet the sinking crimson of yonder western sky...” This line was used in The Seasons of Life; With an Introduction on the Creation and Primeval State of Man, by Mary Ashdowne 1839
The phrase “the hand that made it is divine” is from Joseph Addison, “the hand that made us...”
HAPPINESS.
The road to happiness is seldom strewed with flowers, nor perhaps ought it to be so; as we should, in that case, be inclined to take our passage for our port, and while we enjoyed the manna, we might neglect the promised land.
INTERESTING HISTORY OF
THE PRINCESS DE PONTHIEU.
Translated from the French.