The Evening Cloud
Julia (pseudonym or incomplete name)
The Unionist
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Poetry
From the Unionist
THE EVENING CLOUD.
See yonder cloud along the west,
In gay, fantastic splendour dress’d,
Fancy’s bright visions charm the eye,
Sweet fairy bowers in prospect lie,
Deck’d in the hues of even!
But short its evanescent stay,
Its brilliant masses fade away,
The breeze floats off its visions gay,
And clears the face of Heaven.
Thus to fond man does life’s fair scene
Delusive spread its cheerful green:
Before his path shine pleasure’s bowers,
Each smiling field seems dressed in flowers,
Hope leads him on, and shows his hours
For peace and pleasure given:
But one by one his hopes decay,
Each flattering vision fades away,
Each cheering scene charms to betray,
And nought remains but Heaven.
Windham, April 21. JULIA
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As was a common practice, poetry was one of the areas in which women's voices were most commonly accepted in print.
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