"NIGHT AND DEATH.
A Sonnet: dedicated to S. T. Coleridge, Esq.
by his sincere friend Joseph Blanco White.
Mysterious night, when the first man but knew
Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,
Hesperus, with the host of heaven came,