| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | II. “He who has travelled through some weary day” | | By Mrs. Emma Catharine Embury (1806–1863) |
| | | HE who has travelled through some weary day, | |
| And reached at summer eve a green hillside, | |
| Whence he can see, now veiled in twilight gray, | |
| The dreary path through which he lately hied, | |
| While o’er his onward road the setting sun | 5 |
| Sheds its sweet beam on every wayside flower, | |
| Forgets his labors ere the goal be won, | |
| And in his heart enjoys the quiet hour. | |
| Father and mother, be it so with you! | |
| While memory’s pleasant twilight shades the past, | 10 |
| May hope illume the way ye still pursue, | |
| And each new scene seem brighter than the last; | |
| Thus, wending on toward sunset, may ye find | |
| Life’s lengthening shadows ever cast behind. | | | | |
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