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William Cullen Bryant - "When the firmament quivers with daylight`s young beam"
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When the firmament quivers with daylight`s young beam,
  And the woodlands awaking burst into a hymn,
And the glow of the sky blazes back from the stream,
  How the bright ones of heaven in the brightness grow dim.

Oh! `tis sad, in that moment of glory and song,
  To see, while the hill-tops are waiting the sun,
The glittering band that kept watch all night long
  O`er Love and o`er Slumber, go out one by one:

Till the circle of ether, deep, ruddy, and vast,
  Scarce glimmers with one of the train that were there;
And their leader the day-star, the brightest and last,
  Twinkles faintly and fades in that desert of air.

Thus, Oblivion, from midst of whose shadow we came,
  Steals o`er us again when life`s twilight is gone;
And the crowd of bright names, in the heaven of fame,
  Grow pale and are quenched as the years hasten on.

Let them fade--but we`ll pray that the age, in whose flight,
  Of ourselves and our friends the remembrance shall die
May rise o`er the world, with the gladness and light
  Of the morning that withers the stars from the sky.
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