OR,

THE EVENING OF LIFE.

"6 'There are memories-trains of thought in relation
to the past and the future, which a beautiful sunset is
apt to excite, which are calculated to affect the mind
and improve the heart. Are we keeping, like him, our
appointed path? Is our course tending to a proper
termination? Have we preserved the feelings unim-
paired, and the aims unneglected, with which in early
life we marked his retirement?"

MRS. HEMANS.

LONDON:

J. SNOW, PATERNOSTER ROW.

1845.

The design of this little book is to give advice and consolation to those who have passed the meridian of lifewhose sun is declining. To such these extracts and poems are addressed. May their sunset be bright and glorious; and each orb descend to arise in the celestial hemisphere; there to shine with unsullied effulgence for ever and ever.

Poyle, Dec. 20, 1844.

SUNSET;

OR,

THE EVENING OF LIFE.

AMID life's varied streams and sources of transport and pain, often mingled and often alternating, we learn, at last, to prefer those milder and more certain, or enduring, pleasures which calmly soothe us, to the bustle, the labour, and the excitements that engage and animate our youth and maturer strength. Agitation and emotion at length lose their charm: they disturb more than they amuse As age advances to its sober evening,

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