And shot a dazzling lustre near and far;

Then darkened, died, as all things else on earth.

EVENING.

The sun

Behind the mountain's summit slowly sank;

Crows came in clouds down from the moorlands dun,

And darkened all the pine-trees, rank on rank;

The homeward milch-cows at the fountains drank;

Swains dropt the sickle, hinds unloosed the car—

The twin hares sported on the clover-bank,