cape Painting:

how pleasing at such a time are the feelings of anticipation to
those who adore in his works, the wonders of the Creator!

Of that period, when the sun begins to diffuse his early rays, to
tip the mountains with light, and.... those breezes in the air that
mildly prognosticate, the blushes of the morning....]

"For far beyond the pageantry of power,
He lov'd the realms of Nature to explore;
With lingering gaze Edenian spring survey'd--
Morn's fairy splendours--Night's gay curtain'd shade--
The heaven-embosom'd sun--the rainbow's dye,
Where lucid forms appear to Fancy's eye;
The vernal flower, mild Autumn's purpling glow,
The Summer's thunder, and the winter's snow."

[Timothy Dwight: _The Conquest of Canaan_ (1785), as quoted
in A&M:

"For far beyond the pride or pomp of power,
He lov'd the realms of nature to explore;
With lingering gaze Edinian spring survey'd;
Morn's fairy splendors; night's gay curtain'd shade,
The high hoar cliff, the grove's benighting gloom,
The wild rose, widow'd o'er the mouldering tomb;
The heaven embosom'd sun; the rainbow's die
Where lucid forms disport to fancy's eye;
The vernal flower, mild autumn's purpling glow,
The summer's thunder and the winter's snow."]

[_The Conquest of Canaan_, original text:

But far beyond the pride of pomp, and power,
He lov'd the realms of nature to explore;
With lingering gaze, Edenian spring survey'd;
Morn's fairy splendors, night's gay curtain'd shade;
The high hoar cliff; the grove's benighting gloom;
The wild rose, widow'd, o'er the mouldering tomb;
The heaven-embosom'd sun; the rainbow's die,
Where lucid forms disport to fancy's eye.]

[[The last two lines in the _Alonzo and Melissa_ version ("vernal
flower..." and "Summer's thunder...") do not appear to be in
Dwight's poem.]]

Or, when the evening approached, he would observe the twilight hour,
which for a time hangs balanced between darkness and the pale rays of
the western sky, communicating a solemn pleasure to every thing around.
When evening began to throw her dusky mantle over the face of nature,
and the warm glow of the summer sun had departed; when the stars were
glistening in the heavens, and the moon had already risen, shedding its
pale lustre over the opposite islands "that appeared to float dimly
among t