“O'er yonder eastern hill the twilight pale
Walks forth from darkness; and the God of day,
With bright Astraea seated by his side,
Waits yet to leave the ocean.”

—  Mark Akenside

Hymn to the Naiads (1746), lines 1–4

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English poet and physician 1721–1770

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