Where bees search round with sad and weary drone, Cries "Wet my foot!" and, hid as thoughts unborn, Utters "Craik, craik!" like voices underground: Right glad to meet the evening's dewy veil, THE EVENING STAR. STAR that bringest home the bee, Come to the luxuriant skies, Whilst the landscape's odours rise, And songs, when toil is done, From cottages whose smoke unstirred Curls yellow in the sun. Star of love's soft interviews, Of thrilling vows thou art, By absence from the heart. T. Campbell. EVENING. IF aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, May hope, O pensive Eve! to soothe thine ear, Thy springs and dying gales. O nymph reserved! while now the bright-hair'd sun O'erhang his wavy bed: Now air is hush'd, save where the weak-eyed bat, His small but sullen horn. As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, To breathe some soften'd strain, Whose numbers, stealing thro' thy darkening vale, As musing slow, I hail, Thy genial, loved return! For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet at his warning lamp, Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph, who wreathes her brows with sedge, And sheds the freshening dews, and, lovelier still, The pensive Pleasures sweet, Prepare thy shadowy car. Then let me rove some wild and heathy scene; By thy religious gleams. Or, if chill blustering winds, or driving rain, That, from the mountain's side, Views wilds, and swelling floods, And hamlets brown, and dim-discover'd spires, While Spring shall pour his showers, as oft he wont, And bathe thy breathing tresses, meekest Eve! While sallow Autumn fills thy lap with leaves, And rudely rends thy robes; So long, regardful of thy quiet rule, Shall Fancy, Friendship, Science, smiling Peace, Thy gentlest influence own, And love thy favourite name! W. Collins. MILKEN TIME.* "TWER when the busy birds did vlee, Their hollow nestes' rounded rim; I come along where wide-horn'd cows, * This poem and that on "Hay Miaken are taken, by permission, from Poems in the Dorsel shire dialect. By the Rev. W. Barnes, 3 vols. J. R. Smith, Soho Square. |