Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1825-05-06
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From tie Globe aud Emerald
TWILIGHT REFLECTIONS.
Ri w. r. NJ. WOOD.

The day is dying. the goes down,
The slimrnering twilight tren'bles on each spray,
AMI gilds with crimson the steep mountains brown
Reflected from the hucs of fading day;
And the warm blaze of beauty which is spread
Der Natures face returning day farewell,
Is meek and eloquent as farewell said
BY diving Eien,iS, whose rapturd bosoms swell
With hope Heaven glorious Than tongue cav tell!
Such is the twilight of the human heart,
When faith lights up its evening clouds of dun,
Gliding the hour the soul from earth doth part,
With light glorious than the setting sun;
When throbs responsive in each bosom SWELL
kidding the twilight of their west,
With hues retaining long the fond farewell
mat wa'miy CUISINES from the oertowihg breast
When Loves last lervent kiss dying lips is prest!
Now the faint pickering in the west,
Like some lone spirit lowering round the tomb
Signing to sleep within its peaceful breast,
Aud yet mistrrstfiIl of its deepening gloom
Ana now ittades-aud comes the enchanted hour,
When vagrant Fancy her mystic charms,
And forms from Heaven obedient, 10 her power,
Are here again, and clasp'd in widow'd arms
In JOY eXtatic, which the mourner's spirit Gains,
And now tits gone from eastern hill there peeps
mlder orb relieving the thick gloom
That oroods Ger Nature while the day-god sleeps
Whose argent beam would fill the sunight's room;
The star of Love is beaming in the sky
And numbers worship meath its placid reign,
Whose faithful hearts are bound by golden tie,
That links young hearts in than mortal cha n,
And Love and its sweet wcheries unbroken reigu.
But list! some spirit Undergraduates shall fade,-
Like the last ray of twilight in the west
Inc glow OF youth--,he bloom. of beauty's braid,
Ana ardent feelings rushing from the breast:
All all shall tade-but the ETERNAL ONE,
Whose single word from nothing spake the whole
Inc bashful hues that hail the morning sun,
ne hymnlng spheres that in their circles roll,
ana the frau tenement where dwells the human soul
But say fair spirit-shall the restless sotl
That roam C en- now beyond earth's bound
And spurnS the letters of its low control,
Go out III twilIght-die in gloom profound,
When the same hues betoken coming day,
AS those that blush along the sky,-
When anm'al how'rets make Spring. bosom gay,
And deck tho turf where mans last relics lie?
h nomans glorious day-sprimg in worlds on high.
rs coed to pause moment the verge
vi coming eve-whle in majestic tone
Lnearthy voices pour solemn drge
For all the joys that with the day have hown
FOR It's the hour when the poor soul may soar,
In dreamtul blessedness worlds above,
10 meet those pure ones it had known before,
Ami JON the tendrs of their sunderd love,
And through bright bowers OF ancied enapturd rove
ms good To mark the sombre hues that fall
On the light clouds that pillow up the west
"heu twilight fades-and lea them like the pail.
Or the last smile of love ef imprest;
And when the sinks sminay away,
Like Virtue beckoniug from the gate of Heaven
Ii trnn'p'e man Onward to those realms ofdav,
" hose vision To the eye of faith is niven
As the rapt spirit gaGes the fading hues of even