...spirits were entirely overcome, and she retired to her room. CHAPTER IX Can Music's voice, can Beauty 's eye, Can Painting's glowing hand, supply A charm so...rill Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill; While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners grey...

...ideal world of poetry : " Why lure me from these pale retreats? Why rob me of these pensive sweets? Can Music's voice, can Beauty's eye, Can Painting's...rill, Soft tinkling down the moss-grown hill, While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray?...

...remember his " English Garden"— longer than I remember his best couplet of verse : " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners gray." It was alleged, indeed, by those who loved te say ill-natured things, (Horace Walpole among them,)...

...below the horizon. The evening twilight is thus beautifully represented by Mason :— " While through the west, where sinks the crimson day, Meek twilight slowly sails, and waves her banners grey." The MOON is full on the 2d, at thirty-five minutes before one in the morning : she rises on...

...especially in that beautiful couplet, which his friend Gray pronounced superla<fw.*— " While through the west, where sinks the crimson Day, Meek Twilight slowly sails, and waves her banner grey." The picture glows with the colours of the Venetian pencil ; we can almost fancy that...