Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.

Not till the hours of light return,

All we have built do we discern.

Then, when the clouds are off the soul,

When thou dost bask in nature's eye,

Ask how she viewed thy self-control,

Thy struggling, tasked morality.—

Nature, whose free, light, cheerful air,

Oft made thee, in thy gloom, despair.

And she, whose censure thou dost dread,