When the glad sun, exulting in his might,
Comes from the dusky-curtain'd tents of night.

"Autumn Evening", l. 2, in Mrs. L. H. Sigourney (ed.) The Religious Souvenir, for MDCCCXL (New York: Scofield & Voorhies, 1839) p. 191. Collected in Poems (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1869) p. 241. Reported in Maturin M. Ballou (ed.) Pearls of Thought (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1881) p. 178. The poem's epigraph is from Genesis 24, 63: "And Isaac went out in the field to meditate at eventide."