

the hot, restless, eager spirit of the day 

 replaced by the infinite calm and peace of 

 the night. The change does not come 

 abruptly or with the suddenness of violent 

 movement; no dial is delicate enough to 

 register the moment when day gives place 

 to night. With that amplitude of power 

 which accompanies every movement, with 

 that sublime quietude of energy which per- 

 vades every action, Nature calls the day 

 across the hills and summons the night that 

 has been waiting at the eastern gates. No 

 stir, no strife, no noise of great activities, 

 put forth on a vast scale, break the spell 

 of an hour which is the daily witness of 

 a miracle, and waits, hushed and silent, in 

 a world-wide worship, while the altar fires 

 blaze on the western hills. 



In that unspeakable splendour, earth and 

 air and sea are for the moment one, and 

 through them all there flashes a divine 

 radiance ; time is not left without the wit- 

 ness of its sanctity as it fades off the dials 

 of earth and slips like a shining rivulet into 

 the shoreless sea of light beyond. The 

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