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THE DARK HILLS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: DARK HILLS AT EVENING IN THE WEST
Last Line: WERE FADING, AND ALL WARS WERE DONE.
Subject(s): WAR;
Dark hills at evening in the west,
Where sunset hovers like a sound
Of golden horns that sang to rest
Old bones of warriors under ground,
Far now from all the bannered ways
Where flash the legions of the sun,
You fade -- as if the last of days
Were fading, and all wars were done.



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