Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
Evensong
By John Vance Cheney (18481922)I
When Nature closes like a flower,
And on the spirit hallowed lies
The silence of the earth and skies.
When shades and dreams with night have flown;
Bright overhead, the early star
Makes golden guesses what they are.