At Evening

Slowly along the dark'ning sky The twilight comes with stealthy treail; Ftx to the West great cloud-rank in. By sunRefc rlushed a rony red. ) shadowH of the gloaming-timc, (lat her aud loom aini darkly fall! l'bc winding path to ïancy's clime liies bidden 'neath uur mystic pall. 'ent in the eitv, now 1 dream OL country scènes, of lanes and Hom'rs, Of woodland glen, of woodland stream - Picture of old-time sunset hours. J Bygone, mighty claims you own That siimmou me to aeek thy ahrinel I hear the cali, and wait, alone, Until thy charmed light shall hIiíiip. Tis breaking! Glist'niug near and f ar, A radiance rloats, diyinely bright, Uutonihed by Time or tempest-scar; 1 see my past again to night! iiiii ffkbe Hope, vour fruit íh pain! O Lore, whcii Life'a Hpring leaves wore green, Sweet, e'en iu Uumght, to see again Th' Klysium callcd "what might have been," ! J'hc biiehtuaBa lados, the sweet cay die; Deei) darinesa fa 11b; the mHht come; A wan new moon looks throngh the sky, And stars are trembling in the gU.om. Horning and noon and evening gray, And niystic twiiight all are flowu- And e'en iny dreams are passed away; Again I tínd myself alone. tong Love's sweet moni, wlien hope was nigb, Htern noonday toiliug- whioh in best? Ah me, they all must fade and die; "J'íh but the end can briug us rest!