Evening In Autumn

The western sun withdrawn the shorten'd day,

And humid evening, gliding o'er the

In her chill progress, to the ground

The vapours throws.

Where creeping waters ooze,

Where marshes stagnate, and where rivers wind,

Cluster the rolling fogs, and swim

The dusky-mantled lawn.

Meanwhile the moon,

Full-orb'd, and breaking through the scatter'd clouds,

Shews her broad visage in the crimson east.

Turn'd to the sun direct, her spotted disk,

Where mountains rise, umbrageous dales descend,

And caverns deep, as optic tube descries,

A smaller earth, gives us his blaze again,

Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day.

Now through the passing cloud she seems to stoop,

Now up the pure cerulean rides sublime.

Wide the pale deluge floats, and streaming mildO'er the skied mountain to the shadowy vale,

While rocks and floods reflect the quivering gleam,

The whole air whitens with a boundless

Of silver radiance, trembling round the world.