The sun shall soon
Dip westerly; but oh! how little like
Are life's two twilights! Would the last were first,
And the first last! that so we might he soothed
Upon the thoroughfares of busy life
Beneath the noon-day sun, with hope of joy
Fresh as the morn,' &c.
--_Act II. scene ii._
[9] Preface to _Notes from Life._
[10] _Levana_, of which an able translation was published by Messrs
Longman in 1848.