from The Bijou Literary Annual, 1828
author: By the Author of "Stray Leaves"
source date: 1828
edition published: 20170606
availability: Freely available via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

The Bijou;
or Annual of Literature and the Arts

compiled by William Fraser
William Pickering London
1828
p. 80

The Purple Evening: Imitated From the German

By the Author of "Stray Leaves"

THOU lovely, smiling, evening ray,
How calm thou sink'st in peace away!
So martyrs smile amid the fire,
So thus is extasy [sic] expire!
How glow the hills, so softly bright!
The woods reflect a dewy light;
The day- star smiles on evening's grave —
The swan glides o'er the purple wave.
O Sun, fair image of our God!
Far onwards, to our last abode,
Thou lov'st to guide the wanderer's course
Till rapt he greet thy goldern source,
How brighter then, at thy departing,
Than when o'er hill and valley starting!