'Round half a world reposing

In calm and holy trust:

All seems one vast, still chamber,

Where weary hearts remember

No more the sorrows of the dust.

Translation of C. T. Brooks.      Matthias Claudius, 1740–1818.

PROGRESS OF EVENING.

From yonder wood mark blue-eyed Eve proceed:

First through the deep, and warm, and secret glens,

Through the pale-glimmering, privet-scented lane,