Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[Sweet is the stillness of this evening hour]
Sweet is the stillness of this evening hour,And beauteous its repose—the clouds above
Have not yet lost the flush, the glow of love,
The orient hue of joy—yet in the bower,
Where the light leaves, confess the still time's power!—
And in the glade, seems nothing now to move!—
Sleep's honey dews oppress the lark and dove.
Long thou'st been silent, thou! the pride and flower
Of all thy kindred tribes, sweet lark! that high
Doth in the morning's hours of beauty soar,
As though thou wouldst for ever haunt the sky;
But thy rich matins and pure carols o'er,
How dost thou seek thy nest's sweet privacy—
As though thou would'st ascend Heaven's heights no more!
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