...as in content, There falls on the old, gray city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace. The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires...darkening air Thrills with a sense of the triumphing nightNight, with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. So be my passing: My task accomplished...

...as in content, There falls on the old, gray city An influence luminous and serene, A shining peace. The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires...Sinks, and the darkening air Thrills with a sense of triumphing night — Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. So be my passing! My...

...writer may even get his effect by a single stroke of his brush, as Henley in his Margarita Sorori: — "The Sun Closing his benediction Sinks, and the darkening...with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep." Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep. In these two lines are all the mystery and...

...shining peace. " The smoke ascends 1n a rosy and golden haze. The spires Shiuf, and are changed. 1n the valley Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun...Closing his benediction. Sinks and the darkening air ThrlUs with a sense of the triumphing night. Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep....

...Sorori, for instance, left emotional prolongations of sadness long after I had read it, and the lines "Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep" could bring tears to my eyes. Some of my own English efforts were in that spirit, or else under the...