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Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.

IV. Evening at Sea

David Lester Richardson (1801–1865)

HOW calm and beautiful! The broad sun now

Behind its rosy curtain lingering stays;

Yet, downward and above, the glorious rays

Pierce the blue flood, and in the warm air glow,

While clouds from either side, like pillars, throw

Their long gigantic shadows o’er the main;—

Between their dusky bounds, like golden rain,

Though still the sunbeams on the waves below

A shower of radiance shed, the misty veil

Of twilight spreads around; the orient sky

Is mingling with the sea; the distant sail

Hangs like a dim-discovered cloud on high,

And faintly bears the cold, unearthly ray,

Of yon pale moon, that seems the ghost of day.