| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | IX. “Between the sunken sun, and the new moon” | | By Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886) |
| | | BETWEEN the sunken sun, and the new moon, | |
| I stood in fields through which a clear brook ran | |
| With scarce perceptible motion, not a span | |
| Of its smooth surface trembling to the tune | |
| Of sunset breezes! “O delicious boon,” | 5 |
| I cried, “of quiet!—wise is Nature’s plan, | |
| Who, in her realm as in the soul of man, | |
| Alternates storm with calm, and the loud noon | |
| With dewy evening’s soft and sacred lull:— | |
| Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, | 10 |
| And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, | |
| Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,— | |
| Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful, | |
| A shining Jacob’s-ladder of the mind!” | | | | |
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