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EVENING by KARLE WILSON BAKER

First Line: GO, LITTLE SORROWS! FROM THE EVENING WOOD
Last Line: SMILES TREMULOUS AS A BEREAVèD STAR.
Subject(s): EVENING; GRIEF; NATURE - RELIGIOUS ASPECTS; SUNSET; TWILIGHT; SORROW; SADNESS;

Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood
Faint odors rise, that touch the heart like tears
With inarticulate comfort. Lo, she bears
A weary load — small cares that drug the blood,
Small envies, sick desires for lesser good, —
All day, till now the evening re-appears,
They drop away, and she with wonder rears
Her aching height from needless servitude.
The tree-tops are all music; light and soft
The brook's small feet go tinkling toward the sea
Bearing the little day's distress afar;
While yonder, in the stillness set aloft,
My one great Grief, still glimmering down on me,
Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd Star.



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