Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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[This eve is lovely as the day hath been]
This eve is lovely as the day hath been,An evening fair as is the scenery even
That it now steeps in stillness—calm yon Heaven
Of azure luxury smiles!—waves flow serene!—
Smile calm the unruffled breathless vineyards, green
With their first verdurous livery—now are driven
Deep shades through the air—all power to Peace is given!
And calm as Peace grows all the altered scene;
Of human stir and strife speaks nothing here,
But Earth herself with Heaven seems communing;
Whate'er her sons, poor slaves of Hope and Fear,
May reck of vainly, they of the Eagle's wing,
But oft the Owlet's eye, that when most near
To keenest splendours, grows a darkened thing!
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