...attend. 597 Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...

...Aphorisms. EVENING. Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their...all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd; now glow'd the firmament With vivid sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...

...retiring to rest. Now came still ev'ning on, and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad. -, Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung : Silence was pleas d. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus,...

...to rest. NOW came still ev'ning on', and twilight gray Had in her sober liv'ry', all things clad*. Silence accompanied* ; for beast* and bird', They...to their grassy couch*, these to their nests', Were sunk*; all but the wakeful nightingale*. She', all night long', her am'rous descant sung* : Silence...

...on, and twilight grj^ Had in her sober liv'ry all things clad, Silence accompanied; for beast and h"^ They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk; all but the wakeful mghtingale. She all night long her am'rous descant sung: Silence wL pie Jd. Now glow'd the firmament...

...dead, and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. All but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd. — Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires, Hesperus that led The starry host, rode...

...poets have in all ages made it the theme of their verses ; a few of these we cannot resist giving : -Beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased. MILTON. And in the violet-embroider'd vale, Where the love-lorn Nightingale Nightly to thee her sad...

...accompanied ; for heast, and hird, They to their gras^ couch, these to their nests, Were slunk; all hut the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; -Silence was pleas'd : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode...

...ADAM AND EVE. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest,...

...speaks of it as the " wakeful bird," which is repeated in his description of the approach of evening. " Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to...nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung." 29 " Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields...