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 Now sunk the sun, whose fiery rays Revealed in all their energies Paled the rich azure of the skies, Quenching their bloom in one wide-scorching blaze: Sullenly plunging to his rest In lurid glare he robed the west; His red, round orb glowing in rayless wrath Denounced the terrors of his morning path; An ashen gloom as of a thunder-cloud The horizon girt with dusky shroud: Seemed it as if the fires of day On the parched earth but smouldering lay, Till lit by morn's electric ray Again in one bright gush all nature to display. The warriors paused; and, having found A hollow by green mounds hemmed round, Prepared for food their simple fare: This quickly done, they quenched with care The glowing embers, and in low And earnest tones then communed How, in the morning, to proceed; And how, themselves unseen, to know The present station of the foe.