The lark whose morning song is gay,

At evening hath a pensive lay.

The thrush that caroll’d blithe at morn,

Sits silent now in yonder thorn.

But evening hath no frown for me;

No spectres in its gloom I see—

For hope, fond hope, looks thro’ the night,

And finds beyond its worlds of light.

2.

Then let the sun go deeply down,