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EVENING PRIMROSE. 



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f^' BROAD when evening has closed 

 .'' in, and cfiant trees, shone on by the 

 bright moon, cast their strange 

 mysterious-looking shadows on the grass; 

 when the bat is wheeling by, and the glow- 

 worm with her tiny lamp is seen progressing 

 through the grass : abroad at such an hour, 

 who could recoginse in the deep glen or quiet 

 valley, in the still meadow or heathy moor, 

 those bright scenes which delighted him 

 but a short time before? How still, how 

 solemn, and yet how peaceful is the witch- 

 ing hour of deep midnight, when the glo- 

 rious stars are keeping their watch on high ; 

 and when the earth is covered as with a 

 mantle of silence and of obscurity ! I have 

 often looked within the garden range for 



