The eve'ning was young Purifying the soul The fading red of the sun Amalgamated with a moon to extol The soil radiated yet The heat of the day Twillight's hybrid hour was - By the moon - driven away The wind swept through Summer fields Ears waved so light The forest sung secretly Starry was the night I welcomed darkness gracefully It's soothing mantle of a deep dark blue And from the sky shone so vainly The stars golden hue Thus came deliverance Of the radiant moon My soul outspread ardently Its wings so wide Flew o'er the lands silently Towards home - the night