The moist precipitation of the storm

Revives, refreshes and invigorates

The various vegetation, and bedews

Each blade of grass and floweret with a tear;

As nature, weeping o'er the faults of man.

"Would seem in more accord and harmony, With such surroundings than the puny form Of insignificant, conceited man." UNCOMPAHGRE CAÑON, NEAR OURAY, COLORADO.

With such surroundings than the puny form

 

The day recedes, and twilight's neutral shade

Succeeds in turn, and ushers in the night,

Whose wings, outstretched and shadowy, descend,

And in nocturnal mantle robes the scene.

A hush prevails! Oppressive and profound;

A silence, broken only by the breeze;

A dormant quiet-essence and repose;

Pervading calm and sweet oblivion,—

As nature wrapt in soft refreshing sleep.

Far in the east a solitary star

Peeps through the sombre curtain of the night—

In hesitating dubitation burns;

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