TWILIGHT

by: Joaquín Arcadio Pagaza (1839-1918)

      LOWLY the sun descends at fall of night,
      And rests on clouds of amber, rose and red;
      The mist upon the distant mountains shed
      Turns to a rain of gold and silver light.
       
      The evening star shines tremulous and bright
      Through wreaths of vapor, and the clouds o'erhead
      Are mirrored in the lake, where soft they spread,
      And break the blue of heaven's azure height.
       
      Bright grows the whole horizon in the west
      Like a devouring fire; a golden hue
      Spreads o'er the sky, the trees, the plains that shine.
      The bird is singing near its hidden nest
      Its latest song, amid the falling dew,
      Enraptured by the sunset's charm divine.

--Translated by Alice Stone Blackwell

"Twilight" is reprinted from Hispanic Anthology: Poems Translated from the Spanish by English and North American Poets. Ed. Thomas Walsh. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920.

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