Mcdonald Clarke Death in Disguise (Boston edition, 1833), line 227. A number of variants are reported: While twilight's curtain gathering farIs pinned with a single diamond star. Now twilight lets her curtain down,And pins it with a star. Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.