Soon as the eve'ning shades prevail
The moon takes up the wondrous tale
And nightly to the list'ning earth
Repeats the story of her birth.

While all the stars that round her burn
And all the planets in their turn
Confirm the tidings as they roll
And spread the truth from pole to pole.

- Joseph Addison - 1672-1719

Song No. 18 from the Natural Course in Music
MUSIC READER, Number One
by Frederic H. Ripley
Principal of the Bigelow School, Boston
and, Thomas Tapper
Instructor in musical composition and theory. Examiner in theory, in the American College of Musicians
Copyright 1895 by American Book Company

Found at a library sale