The twilight now is blushing o’er the earth—

The west is glowing like a garden, rich

With summer’s many-tinted blooms; the flowers

Of earth hold up their fairy cups to catch

The softly falling dew-drops; the bright stars

Are set like glorious diamonds on the dark

Blue drapery of the halls of heaven; the pale,

Sweet moon, like some young angel of the air,

Floats from the east upon her silver wing;

Eve’s golden clouds hung low—and thin, white mists