Lunar Science - Ancient and Modern #250601

Night In The Dessert.<br><br>"How beautiful is night!<br>A dewy freshness fills the silent air;<br>No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain,<br>Breaks the serene of heaven:<br>In full-orbed glory yonder moon Divine<br>Rolls through the dark blue depths:<br>Beneath her steady ray<br>The desert circle spreads,<br>Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky.<br>How beautiful is night!"<br><br>Southey's "Thalaba."<br><br>The Midnight Ocean.<br><br>"The mighty moon she sits above,<br>Encircled with a zone of love,<br>A zone of dim and tender light<br>That makes her wakeful eye more bright:<br>She seems to shine with a sunny ray,<br>And the night looks like a mellow'd day!<br>The gracious mistress of the main<br>Hath now an undisturbed reign,<br>And from her silent throne looks down,<br>As upon children of her own,<br>On the waves that lend their gentle breast<br>In gladness for her couch of rest!"<br><br>Wilson's "Isle of Palms."