[anon.], "The Purple Evening: Imitated From the German." in The Bijou; (London: William Pickering , 1828)
   
      
         
            
               The Bijou; 
               or Annual of Literature and the Arts
            
            compiled by William Fraser
            
            
               
                  William Pickering
               
               London
            
            1828
            
               
                  p. 80
               
            
         
      
      
         
             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!