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SUNSET by GEORGE DARLEY

First Line: NOW TO HIS RESTLESS SEA-BED WENDS

Now to his restless sea-bed wends
the slow sun, gazing at our mirth,
And on his lustrous breath he sends,
Wistful, a warm farewell to earth;
Mute blessing, which the vales and hills,
And man's deep soul, with gladness fills.
Now is the dance, like daylight, done,
Or new, with harvest-moon, begun,
Which shines bright as a silver sun,
Whose reflex, shivered by the breeze,
Seems to turn aspens all the trees,
And mirrors all the lattices.




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