“For when thy folding-star arising shows
His paly circlet, at his warning lamp
The fragrant hours, and elves
Who slept in buds the day,
And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge
And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and lovelier still,
The pensive pleasures sweet
Prepare thy shadowy car.”

— William Collins

Source: Ode to Evening (1747) http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/017002.htm, line 21.

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English poet, born 1721 1721–1759

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