LIGHT

FROM

LIGHT.

original: "LUMEN DE LUMINE"

Now had the Night spent her black stage, and all
Her beauteous, twinkling flames grew sick
and pale.
Her scene of shadows, and silence fled; and Day
Clothed the young East in roses: where each ray
Falling on blackness, made the Sun and Night
Kiss in a pattern of mixed clouds and light.
original: "Sables"—a term for black clothing or mourning garments, here referring to the darkness of night.

I think it would be more plain, and to some minds original: "Capacities" more pleasing, if I should express myself in this common, humble language original: "popular, low Dialect". It was about the dawning or daybreak, when tired with a tedious solitude, and those pensive thoughts which accompany it, after much loss and