Sunset

`Tis now the lantern of the day Shall slowly start to slip away To fall into a distant place Beyond the earth and set in space The closing of the day embrace The sky ablaze with fiery glow Reflected on the ground below As shadows drift across the land Like cloaks of darkness softly spanned The clouds above yet strangely fanned Then threads of silver light remain Should e`er the fading day complain Before the night shall chase away The dying embers of the day So turning all to steely grey With shimm`ring fall of evening mist `Pon glist`ning leaves by moonlight kissed And eerie silhouetted spires Against the backdropp of the skies For ever now the sunlight dies As evening steals away the glow That lingers on the earth below - Then she who shines with tender face Upon the land bestows her grace Then takes the heavens all apace The trees are still, the birds asleep All silent now, as growing deep The day turns slowly into night As with the fading of the light And as all dreams shall now take flight So gently close your eyes and rest Sleep softly now at her behest As night-time takes you to her breast For he now slumbers in the west