Quotations

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"Moon Lore", by Timothy Harley, [1885],

\"I beheld the moon walking in brightness."--"Job" xxxi. 26.

\"The moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained."--"Psalm" viii. 3.

Who is she that looketh forth, fair as the moon?"--"Solomon's Song" vi. 10.

The precious things put forth by the moon."--"Deuteronomy" xxxiii. 14.

Soon as the evening shades prevail,

The moon takes up the wondrous tale."--Addison's "Ode".

In fall-orbed glory, yonder moon Divine

Rolls through the dark-blue depths."--Southey's "Thalaba".

"Queen of the silver bow! by thy pale beam,

Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,

And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream,

Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way;

And while I gaze, thy mild and placid light

Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast:

And oft I think-fair planet of the night--

That in thy orb the wretched may have rest;

The sufferers of the earth perhaps may go--

Released by death-to thy benignant sphere;

And the sad children of despair and woe

Forget in thee their cup of sorrow here.

Oh that I soon may reach thy world serene,

Poor wearied pilgrim in this toiling scene!"

--"Charlotte Smith".