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DAY'S END, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are gold in the dying sun
Last Line: Has gone and I'm alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley


THE trees are gold in the dying sun,
The greens grow brown and dark;
I know where little wind-gusts run
By the sway of hanging bark.

Brown, huddled boulders closer press,
Only the mopoke calls
By their cold, mossy loneliness:
The gloaming's on the falls.

The reservoir, 'mid solemn hills
Broods like an exiled sea
Drowning a hundred singing rills
In dark tranquility.

Faint echoes sound of flashing spray
And noon's incessant drone;
An unrecoverable day
Has gone and I'm alone.





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