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SUNSET IN THE DEVIL'S GLEN: COUNTY WICKLOW by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG

First Line: WARM THE SUMMER WIND IS BLOWING
Last Line: CHANGES FROM ROSY-RED TO GREY.

WARM the summer wind is blowing;
From the west the sun is glowing
Over lake and heath and fen;
Merrily the stream is flowing;
On the hills the kine are lowing;
Dark and long the shadow's growing,
Purpling o'er the Devil's Glen;
Far away, in light and gloom,
Glendalough's gaunt mountains loom.
The trysting-hour has passed away;
The sweet sad smile o' the dying day
Changes from rosy-red to grey.



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