21() ' DAYS AND NIGHTS. [LesSOH XXJ 



is then midnight. As the place is carried for- 

 ward, the afterhoon hours keep wasting, until it 

 arrive at the edge of the darkened hemisphere, and 

 then approaches sober Evening, shedding her 

 dusky influence round : that part of the globe 

 which is directly opposite., is, at the same moment, 

 just emerged from darkness into Day-light : and 

 thus, by the earth's rotation, the whole is obviously 

 accounted for. 



When to the western main the Sun descends, 



To other lands a rising day he lends ; 

 The spreading dawn another region spies, 

 And e'er the Antipodes* begins to rise: 

 While we in Sleep's embraces waste the night, 

 The climes oppos'd enjoy meridian light ; 

 And when those lands the busy sun forsakes, 

 With us again the rosy Morning wakes. 



GAY. 



To explain the reason of the different lengths 

 of Days and Nights will be part of the subject 

 of the next Lesson : but I shall first present you 

 with an agreeable method of shewing all those 

 places of the earth which are enlightened by the 

 sun at any time. In order to this, let a terrestrial 

 globe be taken from its several appendages, and 

 placed upon a pedestal in the sun-shine, in such a 

 manner that its north pole may point directly 

 towards the north pole of the heavens, and that 

 the meridian of the place where you are may be 

 directly toward the south. Then the sun will 



* Those people are called Antipodes, who, living on the 

 other side of the earth, have their feet directly opposite to 



ours. 



shine 



