Joseph Rodman Drake - Lines

DAY gradual fades, in evening gray, <br />Its last faint beam hath fled, <br />And sinks the sun's declining ray <br />In ocean's wavy bed. <br />So o'er the loves and joys of youth <br />Thy waves, Indifference, roll; <br />So mantles round our days of truth <br />That death-pool of the soul. <br /> <br />Spreads o'er the heavens the shadowy night <br />Her dim and shapeless form, <br />So human pleasures, frail and light, <br />Are lost in passion's storm. <br />So fades the sunshine of the breast, <br />So passion's dreamings fall, <br />So friendship's fervours sink to rest, <br />Oblivion shrouds them all.<br /><br />Joseph Rodman Drake<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-6/