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EVENING - MOUNTAINS by THEODORE DREISER

First Line: THE SHADOWY HILLS
Last Line: THE POEM OF A STAR.
Subject(s): MOUNTAINS; NATURE; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);

The shadowy hills
Aloud chant together
In audible crimson
The high-born peaks
Gleaming in the mournful redness
Of that madman's eye --
The sun --
Declare their defiance
Of their loneliness.
And about them,
In the steely desert of the sky
Wander cloud camels,
Red,
Slow,
And
In the valleys below
Under a twilight spell.
The earth itself
Enchanted
Rests.
And now
Some secret poet of the soul,
Find this winding stream all black,
Flings upon it bosom
The poem of a star.






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