Echoes From the Highland Hills

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IN THE TWILIGHT. (TO MY WIFE.) I. In the fleecy haze, 'Mid sunset rays, The clouds empurpled, the sky of gold, As day expires, In twilight fires, O what do thine eyes, sweetheart, behold? Where the sky is dark, A glittering spark, A signal point in the depths afar ; The jet night's lamp, To her speckled camp, And the pale moon sitting in Crescent car. Sweetheart, thy thought, In the soul inwrought, As sinks in gloom the red-orbed sun, While out of the dark The shimmering spark Awaits to embrace the white faced moon. Where crimson glows, On the umber floes, And hills are ablaze with saffron warm, As Druid's blood, In terraced wood, The dun west scatters its magic charm. The Dorian maid, In the gathering shade, With veil all yellow and silver beam, Like elfin sprite, Reflects a light, Cold as the ice, or a v