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Now higher mount the clouds, and higher, 
Bursts on the eye that orb of fire! 
Lighting the landscape’s fair expanse, 
Wide, far, the brilliant sun beams dance. 
Wow on the unrufiled lakelet playing, 
Now on the winding streamlet straying, 
Gilding fair cot and white-washed farm, 
Awakening every slecping charm, 
Chacing the dark sky’s vapoury sorrow, 
And promising a glorious morrow. 
How. beautiful the sight !—the eye 
Shrinks from its dazzling majesty 
To rest upon the rosy cloud 
Which overhangs its lustre proud, 
Catching the pure refulgent rays, 
But softening their excessive blaze 5 
Refreshed, the charmed eye returhs 
Where that bright orb of glory burns ; 
~ Suspended fora moment’s space, j 
He seems to check th’ etherial race, 
Then sinks beneath the horizon’s bound, 
With added speed to run his round== 
So sinks the hero’s soul to rest, 
To rise more bright amid the blest! 
He speeds upon the viewless wind 5 
The track of light remains behind, 
And golden tint and rosy blush 
Wide circling mix in brilliant flush ; 
Reflected in the stream below, 
How lovely the bright colors glow, 
Fring’d in by trees that shake and quiver 
On the clear margin of the river, 
That, downward growing, seem to spread, 
And proudly wave th’ inverted head! 
There, bending o’er the light rail, sleep 
Our watery shadows dark and deep; 
There, too, my playful favorite bends, 
And o’er the stream her head extends, 
_ Graceful inclines the long arched neck, 
’ With haughty wave and sportive beck 
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Then, starting back, erects her eary 
And sees deep in the water clear 
Another jetty greyhound rise, 
With long arched neck and sparkling eyes3 
Advance, recede, stoop down, or fly, 
With apt and faithful mimicry, 
Pursuing still her every motion, 
Baffling her every simple notions 
Till with slow step, and frequent pauses 
Maria from the bridge withdraws. : 
Tis sweet to linger here, and view 
The fading landscape’s twilight hue 5 
To mark how Nature owns the hour, 
That calls to sleep’s refreshing bower. 
All hasten to their home :—the lamb 
Meekly pursues its mild-eyed dam 5 
The plover, with loud flapping wing” 
And shrilly scream, is hovering 5 
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And laugh and joke with heart elate ; 
. Whilst cackling geese quick fluttering comey 
And whirring chaffers loudly hum. 
O, Nature has no voice, no tone, 
Howe’er discordant when alone, 
But breathing her glad spirit free, 
Bursts forth in general harmony ! 
The sheep-bell low, the screaming bird, 
The loud rude jést, the lowing herd, 
The insect whir,—who’d wish to cease, 
Music of nature, joy, and peace! © 
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But they are hushed.—the sky grows pale, 
The purple clouds no longer sail, © ° 
The gathering shades the valley fill, 
The lowering mists obscure the hill, 
The evening dew is rising fat, 
And evening’s loveliest hour is paste 
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