EVENING ON THE SEA-SHORE.

EVENING ON THE SEA-SHORE.FROM THE FRENCH OF VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND.Thewoods, the sand-beach desolate and bare,Blend dusky with the shadows dim and far,And, glittering from the depths, the evening starGleams solitary through the silent air.Westward, and sparkling under purest skies,Foams on the long, low reef the line of white;And towards the north, o’er seas of crystal light,The gathering mist of deepening purple flies.The mountains redden still with sunset fire,Soft dies the plaintive breeze in murmurs low,And, each to each linked in their gentle flow,The waves roll calmly shoreward and expire.All grandeur, mystery, love! In this, the timeOf dying day, all nature with her stateOf mountain ranges and her forests great,The eternal order and the plan sublime,Stands like a temple on whose walls of lightThe beauties of creation’s day are shown—A sanctuary, where is the Godhead’s throneVeiled by the curtains of the holy nightWhose cupola high to the zenith towers,A glorious harmony, a work divine,And painted with the heavenly hues that shineIn dawns, in rainbows, and in summer flowers.

FROM THE FRENCH OF VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUBRIAND.

Thewoods, the sand-beach desolate and bare,Blend dusky with the shadows dim and far,And, glittering from the depths, the evening starGleams solitary through the silent air.Westward, and sparkling under purest skies,Foams on the long, low reef the line of white;And towards the north, o’er seas of crystal light,The gathering mist of deepening purple flies.The mountains redden still with sunset fire,Soft dies the plaintive breeze in murmurs low,And, each to each linked in their gentle flow,The waves roll calmly shoreward and expire.All grandeur, mystery, love! In this, the timeOf dying day, all nature with her stateOf mountain ranges and her forests great,The eternal order and the plan sublime,Stands like a temple on whose walls of lightThe beauties of creation’s day are shown—A sanctuary, where is the Godhead’s throneVeiled by the curtains of the holy nightWhose cupola high to the zenith towers,A glorious harmony, a work divine,And painted with the heavenly hues that shineIn dawns, in rainbows, and in summer flowers.

Thewoods, the sand-beach desolate and bare,Blend dusky with the shadows dim and far,And, glittering from the depths, the evening starGleams solitary through the silent air.Westward, and sparkling under purest skies,Foams on the long, low reef the line of white;And towards the north, o’er seas of crystal light,The gathering mist of deepening purple flies.The mountains redden still with sunset fire,Soft dies the plaintive breeze in murmurs low,And, each to each linked in their gentle flow,The waves roll calmly shoreward and expire.All grandeur, mystery, love! In this, the timeOf dying day, all nature with her stateOf mountain ranges and her forests great,The eternal order and the plan sublime,Stands like a temple on whose walls of lightThe beauties of creation’s day are shown—A sanctuary, where is the Godhead’s throneVeiled by the curtains of the holy nightWhose cupola high to the zenith towers,A glorious harmony, a work divine,And painted with the heavenly hues that shineIn dawns, in rainbows, and in summer flowers.

Thewoods, the sand-beach desolate and bare,Blend dusky with the shadows dim and far,And, glittering from the depths, the evening starGleams solitary through the silent air.

Thewoods, the sand-beach desolate and bare,

Blend dusky with the shadows dim and far,

And, glittering from the depths, the evening star

Gleams solitary through the silent air.

Westward, and sparkling under purest skies,Foams on the long, low reef the line of white;And towards the north, o’er seas of crystal light,The gathering mist of deepening purple flies.

Westward, and sparkling under purest skies,

Foams on the long, low reef the line of white;

And towards the north, o’er seas of crystal light,

The gathering mist of deepening purple flies.

The mountains redden still with sunset fire,Soft dies the plaintive breeze in murmurs low,And, each to each linked in their gentle flow,The waves roll calmly shoreward and expire.

The mountains redden still with sunset fire,

Soft dies the plaintive breeze in murmurs low,

And, each to each linked in their gentle flow,

The waves roll calmly shoreward and expire.

All grandeur, mystery, love! In this, the timeOf dying day, all nature with her stateOf mountain ranges and her forests great,The eternal order and the plan sublime,

All grandeur, mystery, love! In this, the time

Of dying day, all nature with her state

Of mountain ranges and her forests great,

The eternal order and the plan sublime,

Stands like a temple on whose walls of lightThe beauties of creation’s day are shown—A sanctuary, where is the Godhead’s throneVeiled by the curtains of the holy night

Stands like a temple on whose walls of light

The beauties of creation’s day are shown—

A sanctuary, where is the Godhead’s throne

Veiled by the curtains of the holy night

Whose cupola high to the zenith towers,A glorious harmony, a work divine,And painted with the heavenly hues that shineIn dawns, in rainbows, and in summer flowers.

Whose cupola high to the zenith towers,

A glorious harmony, a work divine,

And painted with the heavenly hues that shine

In dawns, in rainbows, and in summer flowers.


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