"Now rising shades a solemn scene display Over the wide earth, and over the etherial way; All night the sailor marks the northern team, And golden circlet of Orion's beam: A deep repose the weary watchman shares, And the faint wanderer sleeps away his cares; Even the fond maid, while yet all breathless lie Her child of love, in slumber seals her eyes: No sound of village-dog, no noise invades The death-like silence of the midnight shades; Alone Medea wakes: to love a prey, Restless she rolls, and groans the night away: For lovely Jason cares on cares succeed, Lest vanquished by the bulls her hero bleed; In sad review dire scenes of horrors rise, Quick beats her heart, from thought to thought she flies."
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Compare: — 'Twas night; and, weary with the toils of day, In soft repose the whole creation lay. The murmurs of the groves and surges die, The stars roll solemn through the glowing sky; Wide over the fields a brooding silence reigns, The flocks lie stretched along the flowery plains; The furious savages that haunt the woods, The painted birds, the fishes of the floods; All, all, beneath the general darkness, share In sleep, a soft forgetfulness of care; All but the hopeless queen;—for love denie
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