Evening, thou that bringest all that bright morning scattered; thou bringest the sheep, the goat, the child back to her mother.

Thou, Hesper, bringest homeward all That radiant dawn sped far and wide: The sheep to fold, the goat to stall, The children to their mother’s side. | (tr. Rennell Rodd, 1919) | All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold. | (tr. A. E. Housman, 1922) | Hesperus, you herd homeward whatever Dawn’s light dispersed you herd sheep—herd goats—herd children home to their mothers. | (tr. Mary Barnard, 1958) | Compare: Byron, Don Juan, canto 3 (1819) l. 107 · Tennyson, Leonine Elegiacs (1830–1884) and Locksley Hall: Sixty Years After (1886)