But bless the hour, that made its precepts MINE.


THE VISION:

AN ELEGY.

What time the moon, in silver robes array’d,

Propt on her lucent throne, majestic sate,

With weary steps, I trod the muse-fraught glade,

And hail’d the sombre glory of her state.

Still was the air, and solemn all the scene;