scene-as

Updated: May 12, 2025

And as the mellow shadows of night stole over the scene-as the heavens looked down in all their sereneness, and the stars shone out, and twinkled, and laughed, and danced upon the blue waters, and coquetted with the moonbeams for the moon was up, and shedding a halo of mystic light over the scene-making night merry, nature seemed speaking to Maria in words of condolence.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life