Though the day still tarry,
Through the azure pure
Sheds the evening star her
Rose-scattering fire.

Gemijmer ['Reverie'], st. 1. From De Nalatenschap van den Landjonker (1875) and reprinted in Poëzy: 1827–1874, 6th ed. (Haarlem: H. D. Tjeenk Willink & Zoon, 1899) vol. 2, p. 142. Translated in Theodoor Weevers, Poetry of the Netherlands (1960) p. 273