Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . AIL, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!4 Not dull art thou as undiscerning Night!^ But studious only to remove from sight Days mutable distinctions. Ancient power! Thus did the waters gleam, the mountains lower To the rude Briton, when in wolf-skin vestHere roving wild, he laid him down to restOn the bare rock, or through a leafy bowerLooked ere his eyes were closed. By him was seen The self-same vision Avhich we now behold, At thy meek bidding, shadowy power, brought forth ; These mighty barriers, and the gulf between; The floods—the stars ; a s
Pen and pencil pictures from the poets . AIL, Twilight, sovereign of one peaceful hour!4 Not dull art thou as undiscerning Night!^ But studious only to remove from sight Days mutable distinctions. Ancient power! Thus did the waters gleam, the mountains lower To the rude Briton, when in wolf-skin vestHere roving wild, he laid him down to restOn the bare rock, or through a leafy bowerLooked ere his eyes were closed. By him was seen The self-same vision Avhich we now behold, At thy meek bidding, shadowy power, brought forth ; These mighty barriers, and the gulf between; The floods—the stars ; a spectacle as old As the beginning 01 the heavens and earth ! 140 PEN AND PENCIL PICPURES FROM PHE POEPS. Ech oes. ;* OW sweet the answer Echo makes To Music at nia;htWhen, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,And ilir away oer lawns and lakes Goes answering light! y^ Yet Love hath echoes truer far^?^=1/^ And far more sweet Than eer, beneath the moonlights star,Of horn or lute or soft guitarThe songs repeat. Tis when the sigh,—in youth sincere, And only then,The sigh thats breathed for one to hear-Is by that one, that only dear, Breathed back again. >,••^«.????.^••i --. V
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