Sentence:  Although in the published version of 1815, this sylvan scene of <WSD>vespertine</WSD> quietude does not refer to anywhere in particular, the poem was originally written in response to a specific place: on 6 September 1780 Goethe penciled it onto the wooden wall of a hunting hut on a forested hilltop, the Kickelhahn, near Ilmenau. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or related to the evening; that occurs in the evening.