Mingles in broad embrace the obdurate stone

All one vast ocean! and goes swelling on

Slow and silent, dim and deepening waves.

Walter Savage Landor.

NIGHT.

FROM THE ITALIAN.

Night dew-lipped comes, and every gleaming star

Its silent place assigns in yonder sky;

The moon walks forth, and fields and groves afar,

Touched by her light, in silver beauty lie