Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more:

He is an evening reveler, who makes

His life an infancy, and sings his fill;

At intervals, some bird from out the brakes

Starts into voice a moment, then is still.

There seems a floating whisper on the hill;

But that is fancy, for the starlight dews

All silently their tears of love instill,

Weeping themselves away, till they infuse

Deep into Nature’s breast the spirit of her hues.