SUNSET; OR, THE EVENING OF LIFE. "There are memories-trains of thought in relation to the past and the future, which a beautiful sunset is apt to excite, which are calculated to affect the mind and improve the heart. Are we keeping, like him, our appointed path? Is our course tending to a proper termination? Have we preserved the feelings unimpaired, and the aims unneglected, with which in early life we marked his retirement?" MRS. HEMANS: LONDON: J. SNOW, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1845. ANA The design of this little book is to give advice and consolation to those who have passed the meridian of lifewhose sun is declining. To such these extracts and poems are addressed. May their sunset be bright and glorious; and each orb descend to arise in the celestial hemisphere; there to shine with unsullied effulgence for ever and ever. Poyle, Dec. 20, 1844. SUNSET; OR, THE EVENING OF LIFE. AMID life's varied streams and sources of transport and pain, often mingled and often alternating, we learn, at last, to prefer those milder and more certain, or enduring, pleasures which calmly soothe us, to the bustle, the labour, and the excitements that engage and animate our youth and maturer strength. Agitation and emotion at length lose their charm: they disturb more than they amuse As age advances to its sober evening, us. B |