"Not pleasureless the morn, when dismal fog

Rolls o'er the dewy plain, or thin mist drives;

When the lone timber's saturated branch

Drips freely."

In the progress of day,

"Shorn of his glory through the dim profound,

With melancholy aspect looks the orb

Of stifled day, and while he strives to pierce

And dissipate the slow reluctant gloom,

Seems but a rayless globe, an autumn moon,