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INTERLUDE by MAXWELL BODENHEIM

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First Line: SUN-LIGHT RECEDES ON THE MOUNTAINS, IN LONG GOLD SHAFTS
Last Line: ON WHICH HE DREAMS.
Subject(s): NIGHT; BEDTIME;

Sun-light recedes on the mountains, in long gold shafts,
Like the falling pillars of a temple.
Then singing silence almost too nimble for ears:
The mountain-tenors fling their broad voices
Into the blue hall of the sky,
And through a rigid column of these voices
Night dumbly walks.
Night, crushing sound between his fingers
Until it forms a lightly frozen couch
On which he dreams.



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