<h2 id="c28">AD VESPERAM.</h2>
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<p class="t0">With bars of beaten brass and amethyst,</p>
<p class="t0">Evening hath shut the crimson sun within</p>
<p class="t0">A pasturage, where fleecy cloud-flocks win</p>
<p class="t0">Uncertain nurture from pelagian mist,</p>
<p class="t0">The singing of a feathered rhapsodist</p>
<p class="t0">Sounds from the darkening wood: O Night begin!</p>
<p class="t0">Bright pageant of the stars, come, usher in</p>
<p class="t0">The hour when Peace, a potent exorcist,</p>
<p class="t0">Casts out the turbulence and fret of day.</p>
<p class="t0">Now as the last faint bird notes die away,</p>
<p class="t0">And sunset’s glory fades from out the west,</p>
<p class="t0">Cometh an angel and his name is Rest.</p>
<p class="t0">On white dream wings I soar away with him,</p>
<p class="t0">Farewell, O Earth; farewell, O twilight dim!</p>
<p class="lr">Mary Grant O’Sheridan.</p>
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