lengthen'd

Updated: May 31, 2025

Thy farewel smile, with fond regret, I view, Thy beaming lights, soft gliding o'er the woods; Thy distant landscape, touch'd with yellow hue While falls the lengthen'd gleam; thy winding floods, Now veil'd in shade, save where the skiff's white sails Swell to the breeze, and catch thy streaming ray. But now, e'en now! the partial vision fails, And the wave smiles, as sweeps the cloud away!

Ann Ward Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho